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Wilson Mizner Quotes

1876–1933 United States

Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.

Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.

You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that.

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

Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

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

...a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat.

Harry Thaw shot the wrong architect.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilson Mizner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.