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.
zebras believe fall
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.
philosophy four life-philosophy
My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
running female facts
[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.
bird faithful cages
The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
florida three alligators
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
people lions loses
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
cat animal doe
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
believe hard-work giving
[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.
men ideas stories
[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.
play snakes clubs
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.
people pilgrim freedom-of-thought
They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
people modern-life abnormal
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
country europe snakes
Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [ There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from the United States ].