"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t."
E-mailed by a friend without attribution
“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.”
Emailed by a friend without citation.
"Unpleasantries exchanged"
TSN announcer regarding a little shoving match (no fight resulted) in Toronto Maple Leafs - Minnesota North Stars game November 1, 1993
“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