The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERFThe person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERFMiddle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
BENNETT CERFI 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.
BENNETT CERFIn 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.
BENNETT CERFOne of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
BENNETT CERFDo 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.
BENNETT CERFOratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
BENNETT CERFFame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
BENNETT CERFGross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERFI don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
BENNETT CERFTV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
BENNETT CERFThe Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
BENNETT CERFFootball 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.
BENNETT CERFThe 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.
BENNETT CERFGood manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
BENNETT CERFFor me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
BENNETT CERF