Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#country #designed #foreign #foreign country #make

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#bottle #i #lover #met #never

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 Paul Fadiman

#discuss #friends #friendship #longer #measure

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #toward

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#envelope #filed #get #life #life is a

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#ability #joke #oneself #sense #sense of humor

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#banana #parts #peel #speech

To feel at home, stay at home. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#home #stay

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#human #human history #into #mouths #our

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. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#book #classic #did #more #re-read