“And so it goes, back and forth, good church-members all, which means that their banter contains nothing off-color, and by the same token, nothing that was coined later than the first batch of buffalo nickels.”
Robert Benchley
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“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”
Robert Benchley
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“Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a “builder-upper.”
Robert Benchley
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“There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.”
Robert Benchley
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“In America there are two classes of travel–first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travelling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.”
Robert Benchley
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“The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o’clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.”
Robert Benchley
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“In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
Robert Benchley
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“The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.”
Robert Benchley
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“Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than that someone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.”
Robert Benchley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”
Robert Benchley
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“At 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.”
Robert Benchley
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“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and thatin the High School hall…. The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”
Robert Benchley
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“I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something…. I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.”
Robert Benchley
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“Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.”
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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“The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.”
Robert Benchley
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“In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.”
Robert Benchley
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“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
Robert Benchley
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“Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.”
Robert Benchley
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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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