There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
BENNETT CERFThe person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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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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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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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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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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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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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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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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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 Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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