Robert Orben Quotes

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• If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

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  Motivational, Success, Failure

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• The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

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  Love, Life, Family

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• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

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  Motivational, Life And Love, People

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• Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

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  Motivational, Being Yourself, Psychics

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.309, Doubleday

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

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  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• A compliment is verbal sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Compliment

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• It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

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  Years, Wife, Awful

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• Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

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  Humorous, Native American, Profound

  "They Said What?". Manly Daily, August 05, 2008.

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• A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

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  Work, Cute Life, Vacation

  "Local Legal Eagle Stages Sendup". The Denver Post, April 27, 2008.

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• Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

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  Happiness, Contagious, Carrier

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• Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.

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  Health, Goes On, Firsts

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

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  Funny, Graduation, Senior

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

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  Cities, Contact, New Yorkers

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• We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.

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  People, Use, Enough

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• I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

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  Valentines Day, Girl, Heart

  Robert Orben (1969). “The Ad-libber's Handbook: 2000 New Laughs for Speakers”

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• If you can laugh together, you can work together.

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  Teamwork, Inspiration, Laughing

  Robert Orben (2000). “Speaker's Handbook of Humor”, Merriam Webster

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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.

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  Jobs, Important, Days Off

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• Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

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  Wisdom, Feet, Mouths

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.146, Main Street Books

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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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  Lying, Humorous, Wife

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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.

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  Feet, Way, Sticks

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• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

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  Work, Technology, Geek

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• For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

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  Father, Kids, Smell

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• Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

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  Funny, Fitness, Health

  "Tidbits". "Rocky Mountain News" Newspaper, June 21, 1991.

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