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
fun thinking people
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.
intelligent thinking self
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.
business hound nose sticks
Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business
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.
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.
peace war age
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?