Earl Wilson Quotes

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

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.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.