Acres Quote by Will Cuppy

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually…

— Gideon Defoe

“*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.”

— Herman Melville

“With us," said Reginald, "a Cabinet usually gets the credit of being depraved and worthless beyond the bounds of human conception by the time…

— Saki

“Anyhow,' one of the scientists was saying to another, 'there simply isn't room in the museum's Fishes Hall , so we've decided to pretend…

— Gideon Defoe

“For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature…

— Herman Melville

I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people,…

— Rick Perlstein

When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while…

— T. D. Allman

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for…

— Davy Crockett

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

— Gregory Bateson