Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

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.

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.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.