1
Nicholas Spice wrote about an elderly man
walking in the woods who meets a frog
that asks him for a kiss, promising
to turn into a princess.  The man puts the frog
in a side pocket.  What’s wrong with you?
the frog asks.  A man your age needs a sweet princess. 
The man replies, I would rather a talking frog. 

2
As the Spanish dictator Franco lay dying in bed,
he was told that a great number of people had gathered
outside the palace in order to say farewell to him.
Why? the generalissimo asked.  Where are they going? 

3
Henry III was sent a polar bear
from Norway in the year 1251. 
He ordered it tethered on a long cord
so that it could fish in the river Thames
from its den in the Tower of London. 

4
Byron said, One lies
more to oneself than
to anyone else

– George Ryan