Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. – Wilson Mizner
I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. – Wilson Mizner
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. – Wilson Mizner
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay