A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
"Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman" was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Clifton Fadiman on Wikipedia.When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
To feel at home, stay at home.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
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