[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance whi… - Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

[on the Borgias' illegitimate births] All children are natural, but some are more so than others and are therefore known as natural children.

[Footnote] Great men seem to have only one purpose in life — getting into history. That may be all they are good for.