“Look Ma! No hands!”
The title of an autobiography by Allan Piper, Canada’s first double amputee of World War II, who lost both hands while training recruits to throw grenades in July 1942, cited by Dave Brown in Ottawa Citizen August 27, 1999
“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
John William Gardner, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail April 26, 2010
“Oh, pshaw! When ya’ can’t have what you choose, ya’ just choose what you have.”
The title character, regarding the food at Col. Cyrus Jones’ eating palace, in Owen Wister The Virginian
“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don’t have film.”
“Top 15 Taglines From the Internet” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 No. 4 (Jan/Feb. 2000)
“It is not the man of the world who appreciates the world.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News December 5, 2001, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July, 2007)
“Why is experience so useless? One explanation is that most people are lazy and would rather not learn from the past. Instead, they hover in a gauzy present, one that has as little connection to what happened 10 years ago as to 10,000 years ago.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Post December 29, 1998
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“You don’t have to be able to walk on water; you just have to be able to float.”
Another reader-submitted entry in their “Thought du Jour” contest, from Robert Anderson, in Globe & Mail November 4, 2002