Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything… — Will Cuppy Elders Copy Share Image
“Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.” — Will Cuppy Fish Copy Share Image
“The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes… — Will Cuppy Birds Copy Share Image
“The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.” — Will Cuppy Humor Copy Share Image
“A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You… — Will Cuppy Animals Copy Share Image
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. — Will Cuppy Abnormal Copy Share Image
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… — Will Cuppy Age Copy Share Image
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is… — Will Cuppy Blood Copy Share Image
Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it. — Will Cuppy Apes Copy Share Image
“The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions… — Will Cuppy Fish Copy Share Image
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in… — Will Cuppy Famous Copy Share Image
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. — Will Cuppy Embroidery Copy Share Image
I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not… — Will Cuppy Books Copy Share Image
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the… — Will Cuppy Asks Copy Share Image
“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… — Will Cuppy Easy Copy Share Image
“Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.” — Will Cuppy Etiquette Copy Share Image
Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air. — Will Cuppy Age Copy Share Image
Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye. — Will Cuppy Eye Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist… — Will Cuppy Footnotes Copy Share Image
Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! — Will Cuppy Alligators Copy Share Image
The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens… — Will Cuppy Animal Copy Share Image
The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself. — Will Cuppy Baboons Copy Share Image
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. — Will Cuppy People Copy Share Image