Robert Benchley Quotes

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945

Topics

DogLoyaltyLearnDownThreeLying

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

KnowKindHeadacheLikeEverybody

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Jennifer Grey

JewishToo

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

Jenny McCarthy

LifeChildMomWindowLookingYou

Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.

John Hickenlooper

DownColoradoQuitBreakShutDoes

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

Tony Campolo

CommunityTimeAbortionGayWill

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

SeeStandingShouldersMayGiant

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Russell Simmons

CreativeResultBackFindUnderstand

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Loretta Lynn

EducationBelieveBetterWishHad

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree

HomeMaineSeenAgainstFitAgenda

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Wole Soyinka

TimeMyselfSpaceThinkThrowback

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

William H. Hunt

WordsManPurposePictureBelonging

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

Nigel Barker

YourselfYouOpenUpAnything

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