Robert Orben

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Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!
- Robert Orben
Collection: Happiness
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Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Basketball
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Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Listening
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Funny
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These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Punishment
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Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Rain
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Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Cities
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Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Feet
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Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Laughing
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It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Jobs
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I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Clothes
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New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
- Robert Orben
Collection: Cities
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Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Needs
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I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Government
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Mom
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I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Morning
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Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
- Robert Orben
Collection: Taxation Without Representation
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Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Successful
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The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Humility
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Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Believe
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I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."
- Robert Orben
Collection: Couple
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Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Memorable
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Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Wall
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I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?
- Robert Orben
Collection: Blessing
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To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Work
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They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Kids
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When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Giving
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Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Years
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Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
- Robert Orben
Collection: Book
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Individuality' is the key to success.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Keys
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The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Years
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Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Dreamer
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Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Lasts
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What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
- Robert Orben
Collection: What If
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I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
- Robert Orben
Collection: Family
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A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Funny
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A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
- Robert Orben
Collection: War
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I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
- Robert Orben
Collection: Yesterday
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Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Pain
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Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
- Robert Orben
Collection: Travel
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There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Two
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It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Writing
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To exercise is human; not to is divine.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Exercise
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Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Valentine
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We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Family
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Education
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All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Grief
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They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.
- Robert Orben
Collection: People