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1 " Since we’re made in God’s image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an “atta boy,” an out-loud, in-your-head “Thank you, great job on that sunset and that platypus was a brilliant fun idea.” Maybe that’s why we’re supposed to pray the way we do, because without it God would be lonely. "
― Laurell K. Hamilton ,
2 " Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction. "
― Carlene Bauer , Frances and Bernard
3 " I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification. I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo) "
― Jeff Garvin , Symptoms of Being Human
4 " Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system. "
― Sorin Suciu , The Scriptlings
5 " He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts "
― Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers
6 " If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do...... "
― Steve Merrick