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Wilson Mizner was an American playwright, entrepreneur, and raconteur noted for his wit and colorful life. Famous for his clever aphorisms, he was also involved in various business schemes and the early days of Hollywood. He is remembered for his sharp humor and influence on American culture. Here are 61 of his quotes:

If you count all your assets you always show a profit. (Wilson Mizner)
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. View quote
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. View quote
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. View quote
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Failure has gone to his head. View quote
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. View quote
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Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. View quote
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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. View quote
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. View quote
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It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner. View quote
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Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother. (Wilson Mizner)
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. View quote
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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 - .' View quote
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I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile. View quote
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That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene. View quote
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...a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. View quote
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Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy. View quote
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Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up. View quote
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Harry Thaw shot the wrong architect. View quote
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Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore. View quote
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You sparkle with larceny. (Wilson Mizner)
Art is science made clear. View quote
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. View quote
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You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that. View quote
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America's most fascinating outlaw. View quote
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Wilson Mizner

Occupation: American Dramatist
Born: May 19, 1876
Died: April 3, 1933
Quotes count: 61
Wikipedia: Wilson Mizner

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