Quotes by Bennett Cerf

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Publisher, author · American · 1898–1971

American publisher, author (1898–1971)

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

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

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

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

Common Themes

“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 s...”

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writers

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

— Bennett Cerf

Crazy Fame Like

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

— Bennett Cerf

Grey You Classmates

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

— Bennett Cerf

Laughter Blessed Person

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

— Bennett Cerf

birthdays age

“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 perfe...”

— Bennett Cerf

prayer