Fran Lebowitz

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.