Quotes from Clifton Fadiman

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

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

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

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.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

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

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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

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

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

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

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

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

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