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
I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.
It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
God sends our relatives, but we can choose our friends.
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.