Bennett Cerf

“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but has escaped the terrible desire to write.”

“A publisher is a man who bets on brains.”

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

“Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”

“Collier's died because it was trying to be everything to everybody.”

“The bonds of matrimony are a good deal like the bonds of banking.”

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

“I'm the only man in the world with a marriage license made out to whom it may concern.”

“The art of living is to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.”