“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”

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

“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.”

“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”

“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”

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

“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He 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.”

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

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

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