Wilson Mizner Quotes - Page 2

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Movie, Hero, Thinking

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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 - .'

  Wilson Mizner

  Lying, Sentences, Knows

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• The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

  Wilson Mizner

  Success, Wake Up, Gents

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• Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

  Wilson Mizner

  Love, Actors, Affair

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Fool, Suspicion, Declaring

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• You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Rats, Study

  Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)

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• A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.

  Wilson Mizner

  Party, People, Taste

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• I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

  Wilson Mizner

  Want, Ministers, Priests

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

  Wilson Mizner

  Hollywood, Ritz, Sewers

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• He's a trellis for varicose veins.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Veins

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• What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

  Wilson Mizner

  Children, Nice, Parenting

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• He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Men, Hatred

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Squares, Guy, Miles

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• God help those who do not help themselves.

  Wilson Mizner

  Atheism, Helping, Personal Development

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

  Wilson Mizner

  Lying, Men, Atheism

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• The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

  Wilson Mizner

  Marriage, Husband, Sleep

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• The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sex, Book, Introduction

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• The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

  Wilson Mizner

  Heart, Greed, Humans

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• I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

  Wilson Mizner

  Mind, Trying, Modern Life

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• It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

  Wilson Mizner

  People, Dinner

  "Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.

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• Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Gambling, Way

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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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.

  Wilson Mizner

  Anger, Long, Scripture

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• Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

  Wilson Mizner

  Doubt, Wonderful, Wonderful Things

  "Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.

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• Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

  Wilson Mizner

  Art, Home, Writing

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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