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Men Quotes by Robert Benchley
- The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and…
- Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than…
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a…
- 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…
- One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been…
- A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a…
- Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
- All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing…
- The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
- A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle