Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

Robert Benchley's Popular Quotes

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

- Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

- Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

- Robert Benchley

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

- Robert Benchley

What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?.…

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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.

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I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there w…

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Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

- Robert Benchley

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

- Robert Benchley