Robert Charles Benchley Famous Quotes
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine.
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'
"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."
"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 Quotations
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
Mark Twain
Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Anton Chekhov
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
The Divine Pymander
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Victor Hugo
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein