Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
BENNETT CERFThe person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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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.
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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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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.
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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.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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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.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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