Robert Benchley

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• There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

  “What — No Budapest”, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)

  • Comedy

• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.

  “Quick Quotations” in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)

  • Quotations

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy