Wilson Mizner Playwright

Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: May 19, 1876
Died: Apr 3, 1933

Wilson Mizner was 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.

Art is science made clear.

art & science

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

power & women

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

education, faith & respect

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

wisdom

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

wisdom

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

art