Fran Lebowitz on success

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.