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Wilson Mizner
Quotes by Wilson Mizner
Quotes by Wilson Mizner
“Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.”
Wilson Mizner
“Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.”
Wilson Mizner
“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.”
Wilson Mizner
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.”
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“God help those who do not help themselves.”
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“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
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“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
Wilson Mizner
“Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.”
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“A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.”
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“I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.”
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“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”
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“Art is science made clear.”
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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.”
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“To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.”
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“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”
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“All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.”
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“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.”
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“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
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“A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.”
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“The first hundred years are the hardest.”
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“I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.”
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“In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.”
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“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
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“Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.”
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“Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.”
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“Failure has gone to his head.”
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“Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.”
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“I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'”
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“I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.”
Wilson Mizner
