As between mileage and experience choose experience.

- Clifton Fadiman

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more …

- Clifton Fadiman

Wine is a civilizing agent.

- Clifton Fadiman

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to tha…

- Clifton Fadiman

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, bu…

- Clifton Fadiman

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgott…

- 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

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

- Clifton Fadiman