Quotes by : Clifton Fadiman

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

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

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

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

Don't be afraid of poetry.

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

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

Reading to small children is a specialty.