quotes by Clifton Fadiman

"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
— Clifton Fadiman

"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."
— Clifton Fadiman

"Reading to small children is a specialty."
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)

"Don't be afraid of poetry."
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)

"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 Fadiman

"The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst."
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)

"Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain."
— Clifton Fadiman

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history"
— Clifton Fadiman

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover"
— Clifton 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 Fadiman