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
book exactly rotten sad subject time
What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!
anger backward books bushes chased horrid looking man page sideways southern youth
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 is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
book america facts
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.
country book matter
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
teenager book school
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
business hound nose sticks
Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business
blow wind oboes
An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.
believe discovery soul
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.
crazy writing poetry
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.
football men years
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.
self people noses
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
teaching college today
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!
art teaching deep-thought
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
education teaching school
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.