A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
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.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
To feel at home, stay at home.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
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.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.