My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

—Wilson Mizner

About Wilson Mizner

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Wilson Mizner ( MIZE-ner) (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1911. He was manager and co-owner of the restaurant The Brown Derby in Los Angeles, California, and...

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

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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

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