Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

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

“Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.”

“I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.”

“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; Thats all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die”

“Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart”

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”

“Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine - taken to fulfill life”

“Cheese - milks leap toward immortality.”

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

“To feel at home, stay at home.”

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

“For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed”

“We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”

Dont be afraid of poetry.

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.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

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.

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

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.