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Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was 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?

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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.

Fun, Thinking, People, Set, Today

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.

Day, Education, Observes, Red, School, Teaching

I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.

People, Littles, Rooms, Came, Room

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.

Inherent, Intelligent, Right, Rights, Thinking

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Cooking, Food, Good, Noise, Soup

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.

Believe, Course, Discovery, Fear, Soul, Souls

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

People, Would Be, Television, Watching, Nothing

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. "

Home, Loves, Minister, Prayer, Sunday

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Art, Deep, Deep Thought, Like, Noise, Teaching

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

Age, Atomic, Peace, Stay, War

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Artificially, Coloured, Cooking, Food, Green, Speech

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Age, Birthday, Grey, Middle, Wrinkled

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

Crazy, Fame, Like, Madness

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

144, Gross, Ignorance, Ordinary, Times

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.

Arm, Football, Men, Raised, Time, Years

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.

Crazy, Nobody, Poetry, Statues, Stein, Writing

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.

Different, Fun, Knowledge, Reading, Sports, Works

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.

Book, Home, Objectionable, Teenager, United, Way

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Beautiful, Hearty, Laughing, Sound, World

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Brahms, Detroit, Lasts, Night, Played, String

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