Showing posts with label Fran Lebowitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fran Lebowitz. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria

"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman

"Your life story would not make
a good book. Don't even try."
- Fran Lebowitz

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome,
but I think of it as the only time of the
month that I can be myself.
- Roseanne

When it's a question of money,
everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire


You can't say that civilization don't
advance, however, for in every war
they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

No one can have a higher opinion
of him than I have, and I think
he's a dirty little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Quotes

"The trouble with a kitten is that
when it grows up, it's always a cat."
- Ogden Nash


"I was sleeping the other night,
alone, thanks to the exterminator."
- Emo Phillips

"A single question can be more influential
than a thousand statements."
- Bo Bennett

"Life is something that happens
when you can't get to sleep."
- Fran Lebowitz

"I look at what the phone company
does and do the opposite."
- Craig Newmark

A little simplification would be the first
step toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Quotaria

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson


Cherish all your happy moments: they
make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley

I think it's the duty of the comedian
to find out where the line is drawn
and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin

Special-interest publications should realize that if
they are attracting enough advertising and readers
to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
- Fran Lebowitz

He who praises you for what you lack
wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel


"The significance of man is that he
is insignificant and is aware of it."
- Carl Becker

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
- W. Somerset Maugham


"I've done the calculation and your
chances of winning the lottery are
identical whether you play or not."
- Fran Lebowitz

"An economist is a man who states the
obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
- Alfred A. Knopf

"That's the secret to life...
replace one worry with another...."
- Charles M. Schulz

"Old age is the most unexpected of
things that can happen to a man."
- Leon Trotsky

"A man is rich in proportion to the number
of things he can afford to let alone."
- Henry David Thoreau

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow
down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite.
Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red
means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'"
- Mitch Hedberg

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach
a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry
man about fish, and you're a consultant."
- Scott Adams

"In real life, I assure you, there
is no such thing as algebra."
- Fran Lebowitz


"I never put on a pair of shoes until
I've worn them at least five years."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
- Bruce Barton

"It matters not whether you win or lose;
what matters is whether I win or lose."
- Darrin Weinberg

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Quotes

"Food is an important part
of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Study nature, love nature, stay close
to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Miracles do not, in fact,
break the laws of nature."
- C. S. Lewis


"I have lost friends, some by death... others
through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf

"No one gossips about other
people's secret virtues."
- Bertrand Russell


"A high-brow is someone who looks
at a sausage and thinks of Picasso."
- A. P. Herbert

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

"Success didn't spoil me, I've
always been insufferable."
- Fran Lebowitz

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's
worth it because the future depends on them.
- Pam Davis

Happiness in intelligent people
is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

I don't know half of you half as well as I
should like; and I like less than half of
you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

A physicist is an atom's way
of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald

In the beginning there was nothing. God
said, 'Let there be light!' And there was
light. There was still nothing, but you
could see it a whole lot better.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quotes

"Lawyers, I suppose,
were children once."
- Charles Lamb

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country
are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the
other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then--we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that
you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight."
- Phyllis Diller

"The purpose of life
is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne

"Prediction is very difficult, especially
if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr