Wilson Mizner Quotes

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Wilson Mizner

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Lying
  • Pressure

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• Sentences are not as such either true or false.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • True
  • Sentences
  • False

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

  

  Ovid
  • Lying
  • Very
  • Step

• You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • True
  • Sleep

• In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.

  

  Kay Thompson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Picture
  • Lying
  • Honest

• I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Live

• The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Ideas
  • Lying

• Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Running
  • Lying
  • Ifs

• No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Teacher
  • Clear
  • Sentences

• I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Scene

• Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • May
  • True

• It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Congress
  • Israel
  • Policies

• When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

  

  Plato
  • Lead
  • Hostility
  • Admonish

• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Distinction
  • Brute

• Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beauty
  • Position
  • Abyss

• I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Lying
  • Sentences