Wilson Mizner Quotes

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.
Wilson Mizner

Great, Done, Small

Failure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner

Failure, Head, Gone

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Wilson Mizner

Service, Hollywood, Sewer

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

Read, Lying, Begins

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Wilson Mizner

Leave, Fortune, Lawyers

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner

Movie, Audience, Hollywood

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Wilson Mizner

Show, Count, Profit

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner

Life, Art, Found

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

Himself, Clock, Halfway

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

Wisdom, Between, Difference

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner

Death, Tried, Welcome

You sparkle with larceny.
Wilson Mizner

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 19, 1876

Died: April 3, 1933

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