Robert Orben is a renowned American comedy writer. He has also worked as a speechwriter and a magician. He started off his career with his gag book ‘Encyclopedia of Patter’ which turned out to be a great success. This encouraged him to write further gags including ‘Patter Parade’, ‘Laugh Package’, ‘Sight Bits’, and ‘Screamline Comedy’. In these books, he perfectly blended sketches, ad-libs, and routines to fascinate the masses. These consecutively successful books made him famous and the content of his books was used by various stand-up comedians. He further started publishing a comedy newsletter ‘Orben's Current Comedy’ in which his writings were well-appreciated by the masses and was successful for more than 30 years. He even wrote gags for comedian Dick Gregory for a long period of time. He further moved to politics where he started working as a speechwriter to the Vice President Gerald R. Ford and went on to become the special assistant and director of speechwriting department at the White House. He currently works as a speaker at corporate events and his most recent work is ‘Speaker's Handbook of Humor’. His thoughts and humoros observations have become very popular and are quoted extensively. His thoughts and quotations tackle the most serious and sensitive topics in a lighter tone. Here is a compilation of quotations and sayings by Robert Orben which have been excerpted from his writings, books, speeches, dialogues, interviews and life.
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.
- Robert Orben
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.
- Robert Orben
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
- Robert Orben
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.
