Robert Benchley
"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
"لقد سعيت جاهداً لأجهل الكثير من الأمور العظيمة، ولقد وفقت في ذلك إلى حدٍ لا بأس به."
Robert Benchley
"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"
"ألا تخلع معطفك المبلل وتستبدله بمارغريتا جافة؟"
Robert Benchley
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
"بِفَصَاحَتِي المُتَمَكِّنَةِ مِنَ اللُّغَةِ الإِنجِلِيزِيَّةِ، لَمْ أَنْبِسْ بِبِنْتِ شَفَةٍ."
Robert Benchley
"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
"في أمريكا، هناك صنفان من السفر: درجة أولى، ومع الأطفال."
Robert Benchley
"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."
"أخبرنا عن رهابك، وسنخبرك عمّا تخشاه"
Robert Benchley
"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."
"كلاب الداتشونْد مثالية للأطفال الصغار، فهي م"
Robert Benchley
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
Robert Benchley
"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
Robert Benchley
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
Robert Benchley
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
Robert Benchley
"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well."
Robert Benchley
"New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do."
Robert Benchley
"Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got."
Robert Benchley
"The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello."
Robert Benchley
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
Robert Benchley
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