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Robert Benchley - From the Aging category:
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Criticism category:
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Drunkenness category:
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Fame category:
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Humour category:
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Knowledge category:
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Language category:
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Nature category:
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. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Pets category:
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Profession category:
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Quotations category:
The surest way to make a monkey out of man is to quote him. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Solitude category:
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.' (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Travel category:
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Work category:
-Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949...
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. (Robert Benchley)
Robert Benchley - From the Writing category:
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. (Robert Benchley)
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