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
air sea age
Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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 ].
sex eye hummingbirds
[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
people modern-life abnormal
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
party flannels red
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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.
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.
animal blood sloth
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.
silly thinking blood
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.
orangutans apes looks
Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
years bird wrens
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
animal looks hippopotamus
The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
looks trouble dictionary
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.
people faults easy
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.