Addison Mizner

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."

Addison Mizner

"The wages of gin is breath."

Addison Mizner

"Be held truthful that your lies may count."

Addison Mizner

"Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate."

Addison Mizner

"People who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds."

Addison Mizner

"...Louis Fourteenth Street furniture..."

Addison Mizner

"...teeth set out by a landscape gardener..."

Addison Mizner

"Two ideas in his head at once would constitute an unlawful assembly."

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"A cow couldn't find its calf in this room."

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"He has no manners—he just has customs."

Addison Mizner

"...talking as though the Standard Oil Company was the smallest thing he owned."

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"The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!"

Addison Mizner

"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."

Addison Mizner

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."

Addison Mizner

"God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends."

Addison Mizner