Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Alfred Cerfwas an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1898
CountryUnited States of America
blow wind oboes
An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.
believe discovery soul
Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
crazy writing poetry
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
football men years
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
self people noses
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
teaching college today
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!
art teaching deep-thought
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
education teaching school
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
peace war age
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
birthday age grey
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
food cooking soup
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
hurt work-out people
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.
people littles rooms
I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.
independent tvs urges
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.