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
oil government energy
I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.
lasts economy quarters
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.
yesterday wonder share
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?'
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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.
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Individuality' is the key to success.
blessing computer science-and-religion
I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?
exercise divine humans
To exercise is human; not to is divine.
two world aspirin
THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
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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?
witty opportunity guy
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
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The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
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A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.
education morning teaching
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.
funny-life people obsolescence
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.