Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Earl Wilson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Earl Wilson.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Harvey Earl Wilson was an American journalist, gossip columnist, and author, perhaps best known for his 6-day a week nationally syndicated newspaper column, It Happened Last Night.

American - Celebrity | May 3, 1907 - January 16, 1987

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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Earl Wilson

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

Earl Wilson

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

Earl Wilson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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

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

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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

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

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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

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

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

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Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

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

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

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

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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.

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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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