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Robert Benchley: "Calvin Coolidge is dead."
Dorothy Parker: "How can they tell?"
Robert Benchley: "He had an erection." - MORE Robert Benchley: "Calvin Coolidge is dead."
Dorothy Parker: "How can they tell?"
Robert Benchley: "He had an erection."

Robert Benchley

sex

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Robert: It's been quite an adventure, our life together.
Jane: A great adventure, Robert. Anxious sometimes and sad. Sometime... - MORE Robert: It's been quite an adventure, our life together.
Jane: A great adventure, Robert. Anxious sometimes and sad. Sometimes unbelievably happy. And thank God, never dull or sordid.

Reginald Berkeley

adventures | marriage

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When you can pipe that merry old strain,
Robert of Lincoln, come back again. When you can pipe that merry old strain,
Robert of Lincoln, come back again.

William Cullen Bryant

birds

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Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his litle dame,... - MORE Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his litle dame,
Over the mountainside or mead,
Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,

William Cullen Bryant

birds

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Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter. - MORE Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter.

Frank Marshall Davis

snobbery

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Of the wheel as it rolls unrelentingly over
A cow plodding through car-traffic on a street in Iasi,... - MORE Of the wheel as it rolls unrelentingly over
A cow plodding through car-traffic on a street in Iasi,
And over the haunts of Robert Pinsky's mother and father
And wife and children and his sweet self

Robert Pinsky

people and places | inventions | humankind

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Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Sha... - MORE Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.

Robert Riskin

hope | paradise | toasts and salutations

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Alike in so many ways, united by so many indestructible bonds, the two brothers were still different men. John Kennedy remained, a... - MORE Alike in so many ways, united by so many indestructible bonds, the two brothers were still different men. John Kennedy remained, as Paul Dever had said, the Brahmin; Robert, the Puritan. In English terms one was a Whig, the other, a Radical. John Kennedy was urbane, objective, analytical, controlled, contained, masterful, a man of perspective; Robert, while very bright and increasingly reflective, was more open, exposed, emotional, subjective, intense, a man of commitment. One was a man for whom everything seemed easy; the other a man for whom everything had been difficult. One was always graceful, the other often graceless. Meeting Robert for the first time in 1963, Roy Jenkins of England thought him "staccato, inarticulate ... much less rounded, much less widely informed, much less at ease with the world of power than his brother." John Kennedy, while taking part in things, seemed, as Tom Wicker observed, almost to watch himself take part and to criticize his own performance; Robert "lost himself in the event."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Kennedy, John F. | Kennedy, Robert F.

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Robert: He could get you disqualified.
Gloria: I've been disqualified by experts. Robert: He could get you disqualified.
Gloria: I've been disqualified by experts.

Robert E. Thompson

rejection

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When Sir Robert Walpole had quitted the administration [as prime minister] in 1742 ... he went to dine with Mr. Lee Warner at Wals... - MORE When Sir Robert Walpole had quitted the administration [as prime minister] in 1742 ... he went to dine with Mr. Lee Warner at Walsingham. After dinner a very aged clergyman ... desired to be presented to him, and then told Sir Robert that he had been his first schoolmaster in his infancy ... and had then from his early parts foretold his future greatness ... what an instance of beautiful disinterestedness! ... in twenty years that [Sir Robert's] administration lasted, the honest minister of Walsingham ... had never claimed his scholar, nor let him know of his own existence, till Sir Robert had lost all power of serving him!

Horace Walpole

virtue

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