"If at first you don’t succeed, somebody will point it out to you."

"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Ottawa Sun Oct. 4, 1999

"I don’t have a life, I have a life-style."

Dan Fielding on Night Court (I did not record the broadcast date)

"It’s okay to say what you think as long as you have thought."

Brent Dyment (an "honourable mention" in a readers’ "Thought du Jour" contest in Globe and Mail Nov. 29 2002)

"Now there’s a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!"

Groucho Marx

"My usual plan in a new city is to wander, blend in and observe. In Hanoi, I might as well have been 50 lb. of bratwurst trying to blend into a kennel."

Steve Burgess in Maclean’s Feb. 28 2005

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it is unfamiliar territory.”

Paul Fix

"Spoon me with a gag"

OK, I did say this, on reading a January 2007 news story about a woman in Sydney, Australia who laughed so hard while eating spaghetti that she swallowed a teaspoon (she was OK after medical intervention)

"You couldn’t get me there with a box of candy or a ton of dynamite."

Then-premier of Saskatchewan Roy Romanow on running for federal office, quoted in Maclean’s June 12, 1995