"Well, we've said it many times — if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” (from CBS's Dan Rather) in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

“12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

One in a list of “Paraprosdokians : Winston Churchill loved them. They are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, and are frequently humorous” emailed by William Adamson January 25, 2014

"A specialist is someone who does everything else worse."

"U.S. violinist Ruggiero Ricci" quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Oct. 13, 2006.

“But things aren’t all puppies and hugs either.”

Letter from Bonnie Tompkins (a “bar server” writing about the Ottawa antismoking bylaw) in Ottawa Citizen Dec. 27, 2001

"a hotbed of cold feet."

George Will in National Post October 9, 2001 (a complicated metaphor applying to U.S. Senate Democrats over Iraq in 1991 what was said of "All Souls College, Oxford at the time of the 1956 Suez crisis")

“the words itched more than they tickled.”

Larry Hill in Maclean’s August 27, 2001

"Include me out."

Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 4 #3 (December 2000)

"What President Bush will need is an agenda that catches fire without blowing up."

National Review Dec. 18, 2000 [if the comment had a specified author I failed to write it down]