Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZIf you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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