It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.
Robert BenchleyFor a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert BenchleyThe pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert BenchleyAn ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert BenchleyWhen we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.
Robert Benchley