Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

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.

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.

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

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.