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
men people evolution
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
funny animal purpose
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.
ideas care extroverts
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.
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.
voiceless storks
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
civilization hermits alienation
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
home years elephants
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.
good-luck bees bad-luck
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.
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.
writing lions necks
[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.
embroidery males female
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
eye sparrows life-is
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
heart courses humorists
I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.