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