Will Cuppy
Will Cuppy
William Jacob "Will" Cuppywas an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 August 1884
CountryUnited States of America
facts baboons
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
voiceless storks
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
spring humor hay-fever
Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
country hate mean
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. 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 - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.
would-be eruption footnotes
[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.
running ants hot
[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
florida three alligators
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
fun hard-work stories
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.
embroidery males female
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
mistake ideas honor
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.
land tunnels relax
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.
party flannels red
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
peace war men
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.
marriage strong wife
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.