You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.