There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. – Robert Benchley
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. – Robert Benchley
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about – Robert Benchley
In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley
It was the farthest she had ever been from home, not only in miles but in feeling. The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the cloudless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness. – James Carlos Blake, The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir, 2013