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
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.
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.
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.
birthday age grey
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
independent tvs urges
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
people would-be television
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
book america facts
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
fog ships politician
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
country book matter
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
teenager book school
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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.