As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is...

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

It’s easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it’s harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn’t there.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren’t careful.

You can’t do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin’s bay and end in Procter and Gamble’s factory, Staten Island.