My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.


Earl of Arran

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EARL WILSON
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER
I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER
Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER
There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any s...
EARL WARREN
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public educa...
EARL WARREN
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
EARL WARREN
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were convers...
EARL WARREN
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea...
EARL WARREN
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first...
EARL WARREN
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be ...
EARL WARREN
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
EARL WARREN
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
EARL WARREN
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page ...
EARL WARREN
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
EARL WARREN
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...
EARL WARREN
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...
EARL WARREN
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has n...
EARL WARREN
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...
EARL WARREN
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ...
EARL WARREN
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...
EARL WARREN
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN
Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's n...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
All rappers are princesses like me.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I t...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT
At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager t...
EARL SCRUGGS
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's pa...
EARL SCRUGGS
I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times wh...
EARL SCRUGGS
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
EARL SCRUGGS
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
EARL SCRUGGS
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one ...
EARL SCRUGGS
I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophon...
EARL SCRUGGS
I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pi...
EARL SCRUGGS