Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
FRAN LEBOWITZNo animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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