Clifton Paul Fadiman Famous Quotes
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
We are all citizens of history.
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
"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 intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Clifton Paul Fadiman Quotations
Stoop and you'll be stepped on stand tall and you'll be shot at.
Carlos A Urbizo
"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style."
Alan Simpson
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Edmund Burke
"Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1."
Jerry Coleman
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
Joseph Addison
"While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death"
Confucius
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts."
William Shakespeare
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland