Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Alfred Cerfwas an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1898
CountryUnited States of America
prayer home sunday
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 to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
speech green cold
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
sports fun reading
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 something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
night lasts detroit
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
ignorance ordinary gross
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
happiness laughter blessed
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
american-journalist few miles pat
A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
american-journalist bring indeed laughter room spirit
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.