1. A. N. Wilson - “The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational”

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2. Charles E. Wilson - “What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and vise versa.”

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3. Charles Erwin Wilson - “A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.”

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4. Charles Erwin Wilson - “No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time — but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.”

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5. Charles Erwin Wilson - “A reply to Senator Richard Russell's question, 'Would you make a decision adverse to General Motors?' if Wilson were confirmed as Secretary of Defense. What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.”

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6. Charles Erwin Wilson - “I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself, you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.”

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7. Colin Wilson - “The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”

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8. Colin Wilson - “I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners.... Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat.... Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.”

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9. Daniel Wilson - “Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it.”

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10. Dixie Wilson - “He may look just the same to you, And he may be just as fine, But the next-door dog is the next-door dog, And mine - is - mine.”

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11. E. H. Wilson - “How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”

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12. Earl Wilson - “To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.”

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13. Earl Wilson - “Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.”

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14. Earl Wilson - “Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.”

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15. Earl Wilson - “Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

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16. 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?”

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17. Earl Wilson - “If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”

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18. Earl Wilson - “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”

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19. Earl Wilson - “Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.”

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20. Earl Wilson - “A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women — but not far enough to lose his balance.”

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21. Earl Wilson - “One way to get high blood-pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.”

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22. Earl Wilson - “Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

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23. Earl Wilson - “Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.”

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24. Earl Wilson - “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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25. Earl Wilson - “Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”

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