Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
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Quotes by Wilson Mizner
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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
God help those who do not help themselves.
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Art is science made clear.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
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