Bennett Cerf
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"Bennett Alfred Cerf" was an United States/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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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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

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.

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

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

Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

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

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

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