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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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

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

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