Robert Benchley Quotes

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley quote.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
— Robert Benchley
I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley quote.
I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.
— Robert Benchley

banks

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley quote.
In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley Pluck and Luck

Travel

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. - Robert Benchley quote.
There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
— Robert Benchley

thrift

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley quote.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
— Robert Benchley

dogs

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. - Robert Benchley quote.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
— Robert Benchley

work

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. - Robert Benchley quote.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
— Robert Benchley

drinking

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley quote.
It took me fifteen years to discover that 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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