"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]

"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.

"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”

 "He has planted his last potato. Han har satt sin sista potatis."

“Idioms from Sweden” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)

"I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

"so smooth that he made ice feel like sandpaper."

Description of a criminal by a senior Scotland Yard type in "The Missing Necklace" by Jacques Futrelle (in Alan K. Russell, ed., Rivals of Sherlock Holmes vol. 2).

"it’s not as though I just fell off a turnip truck."

NBA great Bill Russell explaining that although he had not coached in 10 years he had not lost touch with the game because of various basketball-related activities; I did not record when or where I heard him say it

“I sense owls in the swamp. Jag anar ugglor i mossen."

An expression meaning one has a feeling that something is wrong, one of a set of “Idioms from Sweden” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)