Bennett Cerf

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

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

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

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”

“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?”

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

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

“Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.”

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