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.
FRAN LEBOWITZI never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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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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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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