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

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

   

The first hundred years are the hardest.

   

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

   

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

   

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

   

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

   

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

   

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

   

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

   

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

   

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

   

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

   

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

   

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

   

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

   

Failure has gone to his head.

   

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

   

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

   

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

   

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.

    Topics: Anger

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