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.

Quote by Fran Lebowitz

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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it...

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it...

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back...

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back...

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women,...

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women,...

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because...

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because...

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your...

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want...

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want...

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it...

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it...

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will...

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will...

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when...

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when...

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he...

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he...

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him...

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him...

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts...

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts...

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the...

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or...

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or...