Wilson Mizner Famous Quotes
"Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'"
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
"When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research."
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest."
Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizner Quotations
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
Arnold Bennett
"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute."
John P Grier
"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
Libby Houston
The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
"LSD melts your mind, not in your hand."
Anon
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
Robert Hutchins
"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
Ronald Reagan
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."
Saying Folk
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson