All Clifton Paul Fadiman Quotes
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
55% of people like this quote
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
54% of people like this quote
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
50% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
47% of people like this quote
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
46% of people like this quote
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
45% of people like this quote
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
44% of people like this quote
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
41% of people like this quote
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
35% of people like this quote
Related authors