Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadimanwas an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth15 May 1904
CountryUnited States of America
Clifton Fadiman quotes about
wine soul body
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
wine bottles
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
friendship true-friend real
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.
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
funny-life men finding-yourself
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
bananas adjectives speech
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
funny-inspirational fools-day april
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
experience mileage
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
witty rabbits drs
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
wine blood names
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
drinking wine hobbies
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
birthday wall years
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
dull may milk
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.