clifton fadiman quotes

Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
-- Clifton Fadiman

Passions are fashions.

-- Clifton Fadiman

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to
get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman

Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to
get themselves filed.
-- Clifton 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 Fadiman

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.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"

For most men life is a search for the proper manilla
envelope in which to get themselves filed.

-- Clifton Fadiman

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.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
-- Clifton 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 Fadiman