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
bunch certain instead married number people pitied rest statistics wrong year
As you know statistics show that a certain number of people get married each year and the rest don't. Well, I got into the wrong bunch of statistics. I should be pitied instead of questioned.
years whales two
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.
years bird wrens
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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.
believe who-i-am years
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.
age age-and-aging poetry weight
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.
call
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
american-writer aristotle blood brain certain cool exists famous involved knowing merely process taught true
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.
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.
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?
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.
vipers united-states common
[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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.