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
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
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.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Easy street is a blind alley.
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.
I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.