“The headwaiter of an elegant restaurant recoiled in disgust as a man in boots, torn jeans and a leather jacket approached him. ‘Hey, man,’ he said, ‘where’s the bathroom?’ ‘Go down the hall and turn left,’ replied the headwaiter. ‘When you see the sign marked “Gentlemen,” pay no attention to it and go right on in.’”

From the Jokesmith, cited in Reader’s Digest, April 1997, quoted in “Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes (The Write File Quarterly)” Spring 1997

“My weakness as a traveler is that the world seems to me so amusing everywhere that it is hardly worthwhile to travel.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Outline of a City” in The Resurrection of Rome, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #5 (March 2009)

“there is still more in us of the chimp than the baboon.”

Elaine Morgan The Descent of Woman

“To shorten the winter, borrow some money due in the spring.”

W.J. Vogel quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 16, 2003 [but I think Benjamin Franklin got there first with “Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”]

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end; like Bottom’s dream in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it has no bottom.”

Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

“You can be quick but not in a hurry.”

John Wooten, quoted on ESPN January 28, 1989

“If all decorum, discipline, and subordination are to be destroyed, and universal Pyrrhonism, anarchy, and insecurity of property are to be introduced, nations will soon wish their books in ashes, seek for darkness and ignorance, superstition and fanaticism, as blessings, and follow the standard of the first mad despot, who, with the enthusiasm of another Mahomet, will endeavor to obtain them.”

John Adams, quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind

“In opposition to his enervated gang of outcast wrecks you are able to marshal the flower and strength of all Italy.”

Cicero Selected Political Speeches [referring on the one hand to Catalina and on the other to the people of Rome]