Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
BENNETT CERFGood manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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 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 CERFThe Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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 CERFBanquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
BENNETT CERFTV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
BENNETT CERFMiddle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
BENNETT CERFI don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
BENNETT CERFOne of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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 CERFPoliticians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
BENNETT CERFFame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
BENNETT CERFI think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
BENNETT CERF