“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)
“As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
P.G. Wodehouse, quoted by Joseph Bottum in First Things #156 (October 2005)
“His head, once shaven, was covered with stubble, uniform with his chin, like a clipped yew in a neglected garden.”
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
“Playwright Neil Simon once described one of his characters as so uptight he even had clenched hair.”
Mary Janigan in Maclean’s April 26, 2004
“A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a Temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness.”
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers (specifically re the offices of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court)
“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Willie Nelson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2008
“Somewhere there’s a headlight looking for this deer.”
Laura Peck (on Gilles Duceppe on TV) in National Post May 25, 2004
“an old family friend … a retired auto-shop teacher, the sort of guy who knows about wrenches, who even has views on wrenches.”
Kevin Bolger in Ottawa Citizen March 12, 1999