Robert Benchley Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Work, Humor, People
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

Inspirational, Funny, Time

Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley

Funny, Work, Procrastination

Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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