Will Cuppy Quotes
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The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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