One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. – Robert Benchley
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. – Robert Benchley
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. – Robert Benchley
In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. – Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974