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

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

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