Addison Mizner quotes

“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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“God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.”
-- Addison Mizner

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“It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.”
-- Addison Mizner

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“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

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“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”

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“Poets are born, not paid.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

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“God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : "The Complete Cynic".

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“They also swear who only stand and wait.”
-- Addison Mizner

Source : Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.”

“We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.”

“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

“Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.”

“Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.”

“In oratory the will must predominate.”

“When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.”

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”

“Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.”