Addison Mizner quotes
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“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
-- Addison MiznerSource : 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 MiznerSource : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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“God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.”
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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.”
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“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”
-- Addison MiznerSource : 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 MiznerSource : 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 MiznerSource : 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 MiznerSource : "The Complete Cynic".
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“They also swear who only stand and wait.”
-- Addison MiznerSource : Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”
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“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”
Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press
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“Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.”
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“When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.”
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“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
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“Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.”
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