"Are you tired of always getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop?"

The plug for some show on YTV in January 1996 [that's all I recorded of the source]

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Sydney Harris, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail August 5, 2009

"Our magazine’s habit of pointing this out [that the elite’s myths about Canada are not actually true], and of stubbornly remembering times when things made more sense, causes our critics to say we’re stuck in the past. I can only reply that they are stuck in the present – in most respects a singularly dismal and confining place to be. It’s like having cultural Alzheimer’s."

Link Byfield in Globe & Mail October 25, 1999

"Nobody has a right to conduct a trade of which he is ashamed."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 2, 1936, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #6 (April/May 2004)

"The Master said, 'It is rare, indeed, for a man with cunning words and an ingratiating face to be benevolent.'"

Confucius I.3

"Every family should have at least three children. Then, if one is a genius, the other two can support him."

George Coote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail May 10, 2001.

"'Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.’ – Bertrand Russell, atheist"

2nd header quotation in Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life Chapter 1

"In caveman days, every woman had a fur coat, every man a private club, and backyard barbeques were mammoth."

D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”