Quote

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Fran Lebowitz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Owners
Paws
Silly
Sweaters
Wear
Owner
Dog
Tail
Animal
Suggests
Tails
Poodles
Suggest
Sweater
Pet
Canine

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
Fran Lebowitz