Will Cuppy Quotes - Page 2

• Un ermitaño es simplemente una persona a la que la civilización no ha conseguido adaptarse.

  Will Cuppy

  Civilization, Hermits, Alienation

  Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

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  Live And Learn, Wells

  "The Hermit's Emergency Shelf". "How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House". Book by Will Cuppy, 1929.

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• As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Passion, Men

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• 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.

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  País, Odio, Malo

  "How to Get From January to December". Book by Will Cuppy, 1951.

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• [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.

  Will Cuppy

  Running, Males, Female

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

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  Names, Would Be, Helping

  "I'm Not the Budget Type". Scribner's Magazine CII (6), p. 19-21, 1937.

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• 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.

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  Funny, Animal, Purpose

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• 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.

  Will Cuppy

  Paz, Guerra, Hombres

  "Alexander the Great". "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody". Book by Will Cuppy, 1950.

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• Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

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  Florida, Three, Alligators

  "The Alligator". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• [Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

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  Males, Events, Female

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• 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.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Lions, Necks

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

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  Science, Men, Animal

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes".

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• The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

  Will Cuppy

  Voiceless, Storks

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.54, David R. Godine Publisher

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• No viajo. No soy muy extrovertido y no me interesan mucho los objetos extrovertidos. No me interesan las "ideas" de los novelistas. Las novelas son maravillosas, por supuesto, pero prefiero los periódicos.

  Will Cuppy

  Ideas, Novelists, Care

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• It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

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  People, Faults, Easy

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• Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

  Will Cuppy

  Party, Flannels, Red

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• 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.

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  Tunnels, Land, Relax

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• 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.

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  Believe, Who I Am, Years

  "Living from Can to Mouth". "Brooklyn Eagle" Magazine, November 24, 1929.

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• La mayoría de la gente, al parecer, piensa que Robinson Crusoe, cuando desembarcó en su isla, no tenía nada para evitar el hambre ni ninguna otra cosa. De hecho, tenía doce balsas llenas de provisiones que sacó del barco naufragado. Tenía tanta comida y muebles como si hubiera tenido una tienda de delicatessen y la Quinta Avenida fuera de su cabaña.

  Will Cuppy

  Thinking, Islands, People

  "Living from Can to Mouth". Comic interview with Jo Ranson for Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, No. 5, November 24, 1929.

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• Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

  Will Cuppy

  Crow, Innocent, Chaste

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

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  Males, Female, Embroidery

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Looks, Hippopotamus

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.113, David R. Godine Publisher

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• La cebra tiene rayas por todas partes para que el león pueda verla y comérsela. Hay quien dice que tiene rayas para que el león no la vea. Estas personas creen que las rayas de la cebra simulan las barras de luz solar que caen a través de las altas hierbas de la selva y que, por lo tanto, la cebra es invisible y que la Tierra es plana.

  Will Cuppy

  Zebras, Believe, Fall

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• 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.

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  Home, Years, Elephants

  Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.43, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]

  Will Cuppy

  Country, Europe, Snakes

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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