“There’s no need to repeat yourself. I ignored you just fine the first time. Why mess with perfection?”
Encountered randomly on August 20, 2023 on one of those online collections of graduation quotations [at https://www.heraldweekly.com/hilarious-senior-yearbook-quotes-that-cannot-be-unseen/23?xcmg=1].
“If I kept my mouth shut, I wouldn’t be here.”
The caption beneath a stuffed speckled brown trout mounted on the wall in the office of Robert S. Bennett, a premier Washington lawyer and fixer, according to Bennett’s Washington Post obituary reprinted in the National Post September 18, 2023
“Canada’s bronze medal a moment to be savoured”
National Post September 12, 2023 [1st page of the Sports section].
“When someone offers you a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents’ worth, what happens to the other penny?”
Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition October 2004, “Submitted by Fred Fragano”.
It’s a fine line in life: I just noticed (by making the typo) that “Words Worth Nothing” is one letter away from my running hed on these supposed bon mots.
Me July 10, 2023
“I was always taught to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder to find one.”
Emailed by a friend July 1, 2023 with no further attribution; it is found in many places online and I do not know who invented it.
“Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?”
Bob Hope, quoted in my desktop golf calendar for June 21, 2023
“The stiff, formal meetings between two such people can resemble (as Northrop Frye said when ruefully acknowledging his own experience) a collision of monuments.”
Robert Fulford, re Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow, in Ottawa Citizen Citizen’s Weekly May 7, 2000