I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.


Fran Wallis

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If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Only the little people pay taxes.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can ho...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merel...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jock...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to ch...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointme...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completel...
FRAN KRANZ
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonde...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airpo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic natur...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enou...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simp...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are ne...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '...
FRAN TARKENTON