Robert Benchley

Puzzles

• ___ is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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• Without knowing what is ___, one is constantly in danger of being ___ without knowing it.
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• I don’t trust nature. Out there things can fall on you. Like meteors. Or ___.
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• It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too ___.
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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to ___ him.
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• Just arrived in Venice. Find all streets ___. Please advise.
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• I do most of my work sitting down. That’s where I ___.
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• The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or ___.
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• There are ___ people in the world, those who believe there are ___ people in the world and those who don't.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Robert Benchley?

  • → I'm as pure as the driven slush.
  • → For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
  • → There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.
  • → Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Robert Benchley.

  • → Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment.
  • → I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
  • → Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
  • → Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Robert Benchley.

  • → A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
  • → Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
  • → The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
  • → The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Robert Benchley. Which one?

  • → Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment.
  • → You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
  • → Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
  • → After all, the essential thing is not the shadow, but the body which casts it.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Robert Benchley?

  • → There are no facts, only interpretations.
  • → I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
  • → When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
  • → A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Robert Benchley?

  • → Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
  • → The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
  • → The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
  • → As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
  
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