A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.
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
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
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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?.… - 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?.…
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
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.
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. - Robert Benchley
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.
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… - Robert Benchley
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…
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books - Robert Benchley
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. - Robert Benchley
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
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