[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively kataboli… - Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

He [Philip II] subdued the Greeks after they had knocked themselves out in the Peloponnesian War and appointed himself Captain General so that he could uphold the ideals of Hellas. The main ideal of Hellas was to get rid of Philip, but he didn't count that one.

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.