#ak

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#although #back #bother #find #i

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#call #door #drum #free #hotel

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#books #i #i write #idea #imagination

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#certain #desperation #i #make-believe #used

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#human #human knowledge #interpretation #knowledge #takes

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#hope #only #sake #those #us

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#function #heaven #hell #hell is #inferno

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#got #i #know #life #me

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charms #city #city people #country #fuss