87 Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

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

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.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

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

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.