One 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.
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More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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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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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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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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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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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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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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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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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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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