Cuppy Quotes

#1. I informed him that when you eat one of those cuppy containers of flan, you are in heaven and smile for the rest of the day.

Kresley Cole

#2. Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

Will Cuppy

#3. 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.

Will Cuppy

#4. It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Will Cuppy

#5. Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Will Cuppy

#6. [Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

Will Cuppy

#7. A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Will Cuppy

#8. The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Will Cuppy

#9. Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

Will Cuppy

#10. It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Will Cuppy

#11. [Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

Will Cuppy

#12. Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He 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.

Will Cuppy

#13. [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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#14. Queen Elizabeth was rather a flirt all her life. She finally developed a bad habit of boxing her partners' ears and shouting "god's death, I'll have thy head!" This discouraged some of her more sensitive partners,

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#15. Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

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#16. Whenever a kangaroo puts his paws on your shoulder and gives you a big grin, that is the time to leave.

Will Cuppy

#17. Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Will Cuppy

#18. I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

Will Cuppy

#19. Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

Will Cuppy

#20. If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up , he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

Will Cuppy

#21. You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

Will Cuppy

#22. There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

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#23. Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

Will Cuppy

#24. Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?

Will Cuppy

#25. [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.

Will Cuppy

#26. [Footnote:] The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

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#27. Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

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#28. The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

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#29. Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

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#30. The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

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#31. All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.

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#32. Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

Will Cuppy

#33. [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.

Will Cuppy

#34. The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

Will Cuppy

#35. [Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

Will Cuppy

#36. Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Will Cuppy

#37. The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.

Will Cuppy

#38. [Footnote:] 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.

Will Cuppy

#39. We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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#40. 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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#41. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

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#42. Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.

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#43. Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

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#44. The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

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#45. [Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver
the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

Will Cuppy

#46. I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Will Cuppy

#47. The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

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#48. A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

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#49. My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

Will Cuppy

#50. As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

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#51. To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

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#52. I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

Will Cuppy

#53. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

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#54. Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

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#55. The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

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#56. Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

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#57. 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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#58. All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

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#59. It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

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#60. I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

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#61. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

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#62. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.

Will Cuppy

#63. Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night.

Will Cuppy

#64. Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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#65. Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

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#66. [Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

Will Cuppy

#67. Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

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#68. [Footnote:] The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

Will Cuppy

#69. 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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#70. 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.

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#71. 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.

Will Cuppy

#72. [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Will Cuppy

#73. The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

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#74. During part of her childhood, Elizabeth was illegitimate. In 1534, Parliament ruled that it was treason to believe her illegitimate. In 1536, it was treason to believe her legitimate. Signals were changed again in 1543, and again in 1553. After that you could believe anything.

Will Cuppy

#75. 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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#76. The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

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#77. The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive.

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#78. I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

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#79. Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

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#80. Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

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#81. 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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#82. The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

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