"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006

"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."

British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]

“The Epigrammatist: 'Mankind perishes. The world goes dark./ He racks his brains for a tart remark.'"

The last in a series of "Epigrams" in Chronicles magazine November 1988

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011) 

"Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heroes. They don’t usually mean to be, but that’s their problem, not ours."

P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich p. 245.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose

"Learn your lines and don’t trip over the furniture."

Spencer Tracy's advice to young actors, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go