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Wilson Mizner [1876-1933] American

Rank: 101
Dramatist, Playwright

Wilson Mizner was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912.

Art, Funny, Wisdom, Anger, Best, Brainy, Death, Good, Life, Power, Women

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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.		101
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.	Art, Life	102
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.		103
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.	Power, Women	104
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.	Funny	105
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.	Funny	106
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.	Brainy	107
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.		108
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.		109
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.	Wisdom	110
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.	Good	111
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.	Death	112
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.		113
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.	Anger	114
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.		115
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.	Wisdom	116
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.		117
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.		118
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.		119
Art is science made clear.	Art	120
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.		121
The first hundred years are the hardest.		122
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.		123
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.		124
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.		125
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'		126
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.		201
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.		202
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.		203
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.		204
You sparkle with larceny.		205
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.	Best	206
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.		207
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.		208
I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.		209
Failure has gone to his head.		210

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