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.
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 CERFGood manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
BENNETT CERFOne 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.
BENNETT CERFFor me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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 CERFFame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
BENNETT CERFBanquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
BENNETT CERFPoliticians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
BENNETT CERFThe person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERFThere is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
BENNETT CERFOratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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 CERFThe 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.
BENNETT CERFMost 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.
BENNETT CERFMiddle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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