Robert Benchley Quotes


25 quotes:

"As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: Heart Quotes
"If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: Doctors Quotes
"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."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: Birthday Quotes
"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."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes Authority Quotes
"An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"For 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."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"Most 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."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"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."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes Universe Quotes
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes Man Quotes
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: Work Quotes American Comedian Quotes
"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: American Comedian Quotes
"In America,"
Author: Benchley Quotes Category: America Quotes

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