It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.
William Butler Yates
If you And whiskers Do hobnob Some sailor gob Will steal your squab Burma Shave
1936
He's [Calvin Coolidge] the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
ANIMALS Part 19 of 32
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
