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“‘Frankly,’ I reply, ‘I wouldn’t know how to describe the difference.’”
John O’Sullivan in National Review March 25, 1996 (the specific reference was people who diet down to ugly sticks then ask “Notice any change in me?” but it offers far broader “He’s an extraordinary man” possibilities)
“It is a good thing to suffer fools gladly; and an even better thing to enjoy fools uproariously.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News October 9, 1920, quoted in “Chesterton Rewrites more of the Classic Lines” in Gilbert Magazine July-August 2007
“He is one of the undersung linebackers.”
Announcer on ABC Monday Night Football December 1, 1986
“we might say, like the Frenchman asked if he had lunched on the boat, ‘au contraire.’”
G.K. Chesterton, “Reflections on Thursday” (looking back at writing The Man Who Was Thursday) reprinted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #8 (July-August, 2007)
“Chicago’s going to want to pour on all the throttles here.”
Play-by-play announcer on ESPN February 1987
“Anybody who knows everything should be told a thing or two.”
Franklin P. Jones (emailed by a friend without citation; it's widely quoted online).
“Marge: Sweetie, you could still go to McGill. The Harvard of Canada./ Lisa: Anything that's the Something of the Something isn't really the Anything of Anything”
The Simpsons “MoneyBART” episode, according to www.simpsonseh.com, a website about the Simpsons and Canada (the setup is that Lisa is worried that she’s not doing enough extracurricular stuff to get into an Ivy League university).