“Just where any of us in the human race get off to
adopt the Big Man attitude of ‘What is there to be afraid of?’ toward lightning
is more than I can figure out. You would think that we knew how to stop it. You
would think that no one but women and yellow dogs were ever hit by it and that
no man in a turtle-neck sweater and three days’ beard on his chin would give it
a second thought. I am sick of all this bravado about lightning and am
definitely abandoning it herewith.”—American humorist Robert Benchley
(1889-1945), “The Truth about Thunderstorms,” in The Best of Robert Benchley: 72 Timeless Stories of Wit, Wisdom and Whimsy (1983)Monday, August 14, 2017
Quote of the Day (Robert Benchley, on Thunderstorms)
“Just where any of us in the human race get off to
adopt the Big Man attitude of ‘What is there to be afraid of?’ toward lightning
is more than I can figure out. You would think that we knew how to stop it. You
would think that no one but women and yellow dogs were ever hit by it and that
no man in a turtle-neck sweater and three days’ beard on his chin would give it
a second thought. I am sick of all this bravado about lightning and am
definitely abandoning it herewith.”—American humorist Robert Benchley
(1889-1945), “The Truth about Thunderstorms,” in The Best of Robert Benchley: 72 Timeless Stories of Wit, Wisdom and Whimsy (1983)
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