
Addison Mizner
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Biography
Addison Cairns Mizner was an American architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations changed the character of southern Florida, where the style is continued by architects and land developers. Palm Beach, Florida, which he "transformed", was his home, and most of his houses are there.
"Where there's a will, there's a law suit."
"The wages of gin is breath."
"Be held truthful that your lies may count."
"Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate."
"People who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds."
"...Louis Fourteenth Street furniture..."
"...teeth set out by a landscape gardener..."
"Two ideas in his head at once would constitute an unlawful assembly."
"A cow couldn't find its calf in this room."
"He has no manners—he just has customs."
"...talking as though the Standard Oil Company was the smallest thing he owned."
"The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!"
"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."
"God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends."