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Robert Benchley quotes, quotations, sayings

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Charles Benchley
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson Algren
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While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.
Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel Carson
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I'm happy with my bench. Nolan came in the game and was great making decisions down the stretch.
Paul Wiedeman
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Robert: Hey, that's my pen. You stole it! Joe: No, my father gave me this pen. Robert: Your father is a thief!
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As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. -- Robert Quillen
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It's been about a month that he's changed on the bench. He's not as loose and happy go-lucky as he was but, hey, that's the way it is.
Chris Widger
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Sue (from England) "I've been looking for you all my life!" Robert (from Tazmania) "Why didn't you just give me a ring?
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The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
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After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
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Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.
Manley E. Rogers
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
Robert Benchley
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What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
Julia Roberts
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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas
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Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley
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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
David Brinkley
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He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
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A freelance is one who gets paid by the word: per piece or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley
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One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.
Robert Benchley - Describing an office shared with Dorothy Parker
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Kate: "If moths fly toward light, why don't they fly to the sun?" Robert: "They're nocturnal.
Kate: "Why don't they fly to the moon, then?" Robert: "Go to sleep, Kate.
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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 Charles Benchley
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Streets full of water. Please Advise.
Robert Benchley - US humorist - Telegram to his editor on arriving in Venice.
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I feel like Julia Roberts, only with out that hole prostitute thing
Shes All That
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley
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While watching Captain Ron with Robert and Sue: Jimmy: "This is the movie that made me decide to quit my job and go sailing.
Robert: "Did you sue?
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley
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I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)
Jim Lehrer
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The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.
Tod Johnson
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The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.
Jerry Coleman
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It's a basehit on the error by Roberts.
Jerry Coleman
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The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
Robert Charles Benchley
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A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'
Robert Charles Benchley
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I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine.
Robert Charles Benchley
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
Robert Benchley
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
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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.
Robert Benchley
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