Quotes by
Wilson Mizner |
1876-1913 , American playwright
American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures. | 17 quotes | 1,945 visits |
Quotations
| • | Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore. 26 |
| • | I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets. (on his deathbed) 13 |
| • | A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. 10 |
| • | Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy. (telegram to his ill brother) 8 |
| • | Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down. 7 |
| • | Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. 6 |
| • | I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. 6 |
| • | You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that. (on his deathbed) 5 |
| • | Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. 4 |
| • | Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education. 4 |
| • | The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. 4 |
| • | The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. 4 |
| • | Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. 4 |
| • | Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. 3 |
| • | The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. 3 |
| • | Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. 3 |
Funny Quotes
| • | To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 3 |
