Clifton Fadiman Famous Quotes
"One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best."
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman Quotations
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
Bertrand Russell
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
Bennett Alfred Cerf
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins
"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
James A Garfield
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
Raymond Chandler
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Henry VII Cate
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
Albert Einstein