Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and, as cooks go, she went.

When dark clouds full with new waters are thundering repeatedly, the ruttish wild elephants respond by trumpeting, on the premise that it is the she-elephant's…

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

Hitler would go as white as a sheet and tightly clench his jaws, while his eyes would dilate. Everyone in his entourage would get panicky because these fits we…