Bennett Cerf Quotes

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• The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
• The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
• Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
• Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
• The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
• 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…
• Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
• 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…
• Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for…
• Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
• Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy
• For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
• They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered…
• A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
• There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth…
• A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
• For me, a hearty elly laugh is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

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