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!
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.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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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 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.
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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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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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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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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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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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 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 person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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