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
american-journalist bring indeed laughter room spirit
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
anger backward books bushes chased horrid looking man page sideways southern youth
There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
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What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
ignorance ordinary gross
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
night lasts detroit
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
sports fun reading
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
blow wind oboes
An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.
peace war age
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
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.
fun thinking people
I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.
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.