Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.
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.
Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night.
Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin’s bay and end in Procter and Gamble’s factory, Staten Island.
As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, “Does this fish think?” I would even ask others, “Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?” And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.