Andy Levy on Red Eye, talking about new laws to prevent smoking outdoors: "That train has already sailed."

An author of a career book wrote in her manuscript that a recently appointed CEO "now brings home the big doe." In the margin her editor wrote, "Oh, deer."

Two classics from an episode of The Sopranos. Tony's girlfriend Irini: "You are my knight in white satin armor." Tony on a friend's prostate operation:"Now he has to piss into a cathode tube."

Former Massachusetts U.S. Congressman William Delahunt, defending the $250,000 a year salary he will receive as head of a medical marijuana dispensary: "It's not the golden calf or the golden cow." No, it's a goose, and it will be laying a lot of golden eggs in his pocket.

An author describes folks trying to dream up a creative solution to a tough problem as "wracking their brains." Yes, thinking too much can lead to wrack and ruin. Better to stretch the old brain on the rack.

Submitted by our Florida correspondent who provided the inspiration for this blog with his self-deprecating comment on the tennis court. "I feel like the village albatross"-- a pretty CNN reporter observed that a certain company may have avoided legal trouble by "slipping under the loophole." Nice radar, Professor Silver!

In a Cape Cod Times editorial: "After less than a year in office, Senator Elizabeth Warren is now considered presidential timbre." Does that mean she shouts loudly from the podium?