Clifton Paul Fadiman Quotes

"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
(Related: Travel, People, Country)

"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

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: History, Wine)

"To feel at home, stay at home."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Home)

"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Speech)

"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
(Related: Friendship, Measure)

"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Art, Business, Profession)

"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Immortality)

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Humor, Ability, Sense)

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
(Related: Wine)

"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
(Related: Age, Father, Son, Community, Old, Want, Years)