Earl Wilson Quotes


"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it."
- Earl Wilson
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Money, Future, Generations, Shame)

"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Age, Middle age)

"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Ability, Earth)

"Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Boss, Nothing)

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Blood, Pressure)

"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Ability)

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Car)

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Adolescence, Problems, Snow)

"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Play)

"The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election."
- Earl Wilson
"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Science, Coffee, Communication, May, Office)

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Art, Death, Courage, Being)

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Baseball)

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Vacation)

"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Man, May, Race, Woman)

"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Money, Fool, Nonsense, Talking)

"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Car, Family, Home, Rest)

"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Money, Electricity, Man, May)

"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Duty, Temptation, Whisper)

"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Experience, Mistake)

"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Baseball, Parents)

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Gossip)

"He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Man)

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)

"The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Work, Wife, Man, Want)

"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Love, Debt, World)

"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Bargain, Man, Woman)

"Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: May, Parents, Stress, Today, Youth)

"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: May)