Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
—Brendan Behan
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
—Brendan Behan
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
—Brendan Behan
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
—Brendan Behan
Topics: The Future, Anxiety, Fear, Tomorrow, Aspirations
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
—Brendan Behan
Topics: Accomplishment, Success, Success & Failure
Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.
—Brendan Behan
Topics: Women
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.
—Brendan Behan
Topics: Loneliness
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