Wilson Mizner Quotes

The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

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• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Italian

• I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man

• Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Hopeless

• The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Couple
  • Legal

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Wish
  • Desire
  • Fulfilled

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  

  Len Wein
  • Effort
  • Audience
  • Realized

• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Obstacles
  • Experiences

• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fall

• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

• And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Trying
  • Fighting
  • Leaving

• The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Firsts
  • Eternity
  • Hardest