Robert Orben
Robert Orben
Robert Orbenis best known as an American professional comedy writer, though he also worked as a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford and as a magician. He has written multiple books on comedy, mostly collections of gags and "one-liners" originally written for his newsletter, Orben's Current Comedy, and he has also written books for magicians...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth4 March 1927
CountryUnited States of America
people political sense-of-humor
Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.
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You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
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I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.
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Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
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If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
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Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
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My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
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Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.