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

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

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.

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.

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

The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

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