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.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
wisdom
God help those who do not help themselves.
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The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
power & women
Failure has gone to his head.
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
wisdom
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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