Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever!

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

Adults are obsolete children.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.