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

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

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"

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

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