"the mortadella of philosophers. Little globules of rich, fatty thinking, in vast quantities of baloney."
P.J. O'Rourke on Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Noah Richler in National Post December 6, 2001
"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.