'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
"The late Jimmy 'Schnozzle’ Durante memorably exposed the flaw in this logic: 'They said that Hitler was mad. They said that Napoleon was mad. They said that Louie was mad.' Interjection: 'Who’s Louie?' Durante: 'My uncle. He was mad.'"
Editorial in National Post December 27, 1999
"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).