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.

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

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

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

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

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