“all my first views were exactly uttered in a riddle that stuck in my brain from boyhood. The question was, ‘What did the first frog say?’ And the answer was, ‘Lord, how you made me jump!’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy

“He looks like he swallowed a safe.”

An ESPN commentator on the St. John’s basketball team’s very solidly built guard Matt Brust, February 2, 1987

“a sleeping fool may pass for a wise man.”

One of the minor villains in Sax Rohmer The Trail of Fu Manchu

“A man who looks as though he’s been raised by wolves”.

Val Sears in the Ottawa Sun February 24, 1999 (about Peter Gzowski, who he liked)

“Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.”

One of “Still More Samuel Goldwynners” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #1 (September 2005)

“like a walking torture chamber...”

Jack Kerouac On the Road (describing a police officer with all kinds of leather gear, shiny weapons etc.)

“You’re so thin you’d have to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow!”

“Shorty” in Louis L’Amour The Trail to Seven Pines

“Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?”

“More Unanswerables” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (1-2/04)