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.
BENNETT CERFOratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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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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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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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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I 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.
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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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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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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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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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