The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. -Robert Benchley

 

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.


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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

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

Robert Benchley

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

Robert Benchley

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

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley