Fran Lebowitz

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

  • Sleep

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

  “Manners” (p. 6).

  • Clever Jabs

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

  • Comedy

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• 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).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy