Robert Benchley Has A Style That Is

A Liberal Mind Is A Mind That Is Able To Imagine Itself Believing Anything.

Dogs Laugh, But They Laugh With Their Tails.

Emotion Is The Surest Arbiter Of A Poetic Choice, And It Is The Priest Of All Supreme Unions In The Mind

Patriotism Is One Of The Unalterable Facts Of Man's Nature. It Is A Virtue If You Like It, And A Vice If You Don't Like It.

A Joke Is Not A Thing But A Process, A Trick You Play On The Listener's Mind. You Start Him Off Toward A Plausible Goal, And Then By A Sudden Twist You Land Him Nowhere At All Or Just Where He Didn't Expect To Go.