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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

«One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.»
«When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.»
«A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.»
«Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | Keywords: cheese, leap
«A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | About: Humor | Keywords: sense of humor
«To feel at home, stay at home.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | About: Home | Keywords: stay-at-home
«To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.»
«Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.»
«For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | About: Life | Keywords: envelope, envelopes, filed
«We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | About: Belief | Keywords: comma, commas, invert, inverted, utterer

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