Robert Benchley's Profile
Brief about Robert Benchley: By info that we know Robert Benchley was born at 1970-01-01. And also Robert Benchley is American Comedian.
Some Robert Benchley's quotes. Goto "Robert Benchley's quotation" section for more.In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Tags: Children, Old, SmallIt 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.
Tags: Famous, Time, WritingNothing 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.
Tags: Band, Makes, OlderThe biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Tags: Biggest, Changing, WritingThere seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Tags: Humor, Seems, WorryThere is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Tags: Difficult, May, SayingAt fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Tags: Beginning, Money, PowerFor a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Tags: Evil, Time, WaitingMost of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Tags: Fact, Fall, ShortOther men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
Tags: May, Men, OffWe call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Tags: Door, Free, NationYou 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.
Tags: After, Family, SenseI have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Tags: Funny, Great, TriedA boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Tags: Learn, Loyalty, TimesA dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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