“In 1913 a sign hung in the lobby of the Stag Hotel in Golden City, Ontario, stated succinctly, WE KNOW THIS HOTEL IS ON THE BUM. WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF?”
Peter Unwin in The Beaver October-November 2004
“It wasn’t clear whether this was obvious, false, or possibly both.”
Peter Foster in National Post November 19, 1999 [specifically regarding Peter Drucker and entering a “knowledge society” but it applies amazingly widely].
“You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.”
One of the “Expressions for women under stress” found on the Internet, in Globe & Mail March 16, 2001
“Now I wish to say I will never call any doll a liar, being at all times a gentleman, and for all I know, Bobby Baker may really think The Brain is handsome and romantic, but personally I figure if she is not lying to him she is at least a little excited when she makes such a statement to The Brain.”
Damon Runyon “The Brain Goes Home” in The Best of Damon Runyon
“A contest of wills? Surely you’d be disqualified.”
Another of my “witticisms”, from August 20, 2015
“Keep a stiff upper chin.”
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”
On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced
“He wore… clothes that looked like what starts fires in old warehouses.”
Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash