For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
BENNETT CERFTV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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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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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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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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Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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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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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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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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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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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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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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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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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 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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