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Wilson Mizner quotes, quotations, sayings

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)
Dwight D Eisenhower
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We live on the planet of the Apes. Is that funny, or serious?;"Robert Anton Wilson
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning Eugene S. Wilson
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner
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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner
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Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.
William Bolitho
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Wilson Mizner
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Wilson Mizner
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner
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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
Wilson Mizner
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Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Wilson Mizner
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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
Wilson Mizner
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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Wilson Mizner
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When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizner
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A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain
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I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)
Lyndon B. Johnson
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
Wilson Mizner
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizner
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner
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