Will Cuppy Quotes

He [Khufu] had discovered the fact that if you tell somebody to do something, nine times out of ten he will do it.

[Footnote] Carthage was governed by its rich men and was therefore a plutocracy. Rome was also governed by its rich men and was therefore a republic.

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

He [Philip II] subdued the Greeks after they had knocked themselves out in the Peloponnesian War and appointed himself Captain General so that he could uphold the ideals of Hellas. The main ideal of Hellas was to get rid of Philip, but he didn't count that one.

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.

[Footnote] Great men seem to have only one purpose in life — getting into history. That may be all they are good for.

The more snuff Frederick took, the more memoirs he wrote. He loved literature, but not enough to let it alone and stop trying to improve it.

[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.

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.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

The Franks had all been German at first, but some of them had taken to eating frogs and snails and were gradually turning into Frenchmen, a fact not generally known at the time because there were no French as yet.