Clifton Fadiman Quotes

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is desi...

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you ...

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that L...

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t kn...

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who ca...

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you tha...

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a fir...

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is desi...

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balanc...

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the numbe...

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence...