Robert Benchley Quotes:
Ocupation: Humorist
Life: September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945
Birthday: September 15
Death: November 21
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.
source: Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”
topic: Men, Average, Two, Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo
