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.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

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

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

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.

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

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