There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.
Robert BenchleyI have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert BenchleyThere is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
Robert BenchleyEven nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
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