Many a man has decided to ...

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
 Brendan Behan

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
 Brendan Behan
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
 Brendan Behan
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
 Brendan Behan
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
 Brendan Behan
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
 Brendan Behan