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Wilson Mizner
May 19, 1876 - April 3, 1933
Nationality: American
Category: Dramatist
Subcategory: American Dramatist

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

   

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

   

You sparkle with larceny.

   

God help those who do not help themselves.

   

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

   

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

   

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

   

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

   

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

   

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

   

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

   

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

   

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.

   

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

   

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

   

Art is science made clear.

   

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

   

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

   

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

   

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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