52 ordspråk av Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley föddes den September 15th 1889 och dog den 21 November 1945 - US writer
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 Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people |
| Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. |
| Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. |
| Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous... |
| For 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. |
| Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. |
| I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle. |
| I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle. |
| I didn't ought to have went |
| I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. |
| I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. |
| I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. |
| I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. |
| I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. |
| I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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