The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
BENNETT CERFThe person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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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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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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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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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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.
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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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.
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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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