“the atmosphere of alarm, of being scotched, of being up a tree of incredible height...”

Arnold Bennett in "Lo! ‘Twas a Gala Night!" in Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

"'People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.' – Charles K. Kettering (1876-1958) American Engineer, Inventor"

www.yuni.com/quotes/kettering.html

“Reading this column was like eating a chocolate-covered lemon: sweet on the outside, but terribly bitter when you bite down.”

Letter from Jill Woodley of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen November 14, 2004 [not about one of my columns]

“uncooperation”

What a police officer said he was getting from hostile people during an investigation, on a news program on Channel 16 in Vancouver March 29, 1992.

'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.