Wilson Mizner Quotes

• I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

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  Tags in Exhausts, Careless

• The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Bar, Between

• There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

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  Tags in Restless, Closet

• In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

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  Tags in Existence, Tact

• Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

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• Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

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  Tags in Corner, Overcoat

• The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

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  Tags in Halfway, Cuckoo

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

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  Tags in Bed, Embarrassment

• You sparkle with larceny.

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  Tags in Larceny, Sparkle

• 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.

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  Tags in Inadequate

• Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.

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  Tags in Meet, Be Nice

• 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.

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  Tags in Accomplished, Being Done

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

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  Tags in Hollywood, Spent

Wilson Mizner (33)

Birth:	19th May, 1876
Death:	3rd April, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Writer, Playwriter

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