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Will Cuppy
American
Writer
About the author
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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#People
#Faults
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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Trouble
#Word
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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Chance
#Purpose
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#People
#Pretty
#Beginning
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Reason
#Instinct
#Intelligence
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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Country
#Age
#Poetry
#Weight
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Etiquette
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Wife
#Home
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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Thinking
#Famous
#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.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Thinking
#Blood
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#Reason
#Instinct
#Intelligence
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy,
American
Writer
#People
#Respect