Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Wilson Miznerwas an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Road Show...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth19 May 1876
CountryUnited States of America
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
God help those who do not help themselves.
It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Count 10 over him - he'll get up
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
Failure has gone to his head.