Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.