Robert Benchley quotes - page 3

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. (Robert Benchley)
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. View quote
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I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. View quote
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The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." View quote
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Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. View quote
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. View quote
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The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities. View quote
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands. View quote
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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did. View quote
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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor. View quote
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I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. (Robert Benchley)
If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge. View quote
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A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age. View quote
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Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. View quote
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It was one of those plays in which the actors, unfortunately, enunciated very clearly. View quote
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