“You can’t bet the farm on it or you’ll buy the farm.”
Commentator on Blue Jays’ game on CBC Oct. 2, 1992 [specifically re a pitcher going low and away or high and tight]
“It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades
“The common belief of the age [the 18th century] that human nature was forever the same referred essentially to the raw biological nature upon which the environment operated.”
Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787.
“I wonder why pundits describe certain politicians as ideology-free, since that’s not possible. Everyone has some view of the world.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" Feb. 25, 2019
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.”
Werner Heisenberg (of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) quoted in Globe & Mail Feb. 1, 2002
“What in our history makes you think I’m capable of something like that?”
Roy O’Bannon (Owen Wilson) to Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) in Shanghai Knights according to www.imdb.com
“Although God is said to test people at times, the reason does not seem to be that He needs to find out something about them. Rather they need to find out something about themselves.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" Feb. 25, 2019
“I feel his real talent is wasted here.”
What to say in a letter of recommendation for the office drunk, from Richard S. Zera Business Wit and Wisdom (also found on various websites - I'm not sure where it originated)