People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.
Robert BenchleyIt is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
Robert BenchleyAn ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert BenchleyIf you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.
Robert Benchley