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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

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

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

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

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

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.

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

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

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

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.

[Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

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.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

Whenever a kangaroo puts his paws on your shoulder and gives you a big grin, that is the time to leave.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

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

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

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

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

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.

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

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

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

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

The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.

[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

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

[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

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.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

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.

All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.