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.
FRAN LEBOWITZI’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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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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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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