He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

-Crosby, Bing originally Harry Lillis Crosby
Suggesting his own epitaph. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelistö I don't think she'd be missedöI'm sure she'd not be missed!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

You're not a nice guy if you have a gun, even if you are a nice guy.

-Koch, Edward I(rving)
  In Time, 3 Mar.

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

-Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
  archy and mehitabel,'certain maxims of archy'.

'You are snatching a hard guy when you snatch Bookie Bob. Avery hard guy, indeed. In fact,' I say,'I hear the softest thing about him is his front teeth.'

-Runyon, (Alfred) Damon
  Blue Plate Special,'Snatching of Bookie Bob'.

He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.11.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing that Jesus really would've liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Quentin Durward, ch.4.

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big oneöan thenö† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhereöwherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'öI'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildöwhy, I'll be there. See?

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.28.