If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~Lawrence Housman
The cream Preserves Pa's razor blade The jar preserves Ma's marmalade Burma Shave
1936
We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
J. Edward Day
ANIMALS Part 21 of 32
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The blue whale is the loudest animal on Earth. The call of the blue whale reaches levels up to 188 decibels. This extraordinarily loud whistle can be heard for hundreds of miles underwater. The second-loudest animal on Earth is the Howler Monkey.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies. He was born in Kentucky.
