Will Cuppy Quotes

"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Purpose, Chance)

"Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes."
- Will Cuppy
(Related: People, Beginning, Pretty)

"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
(Related: Intelligence, Instinct, Reason)

"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
(Related: Age, Poetry, Country, Weight)

"Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential."
- Will Cuppy
(Related: Etiquette)

"Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something."
- Will Cuppy
(Related: Home, Wife)

"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
(Related: Blood, Famous, Thinking)

"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
(Related: Blood, Thinking)

"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
(Related: Intelligence, Instinct, Reason)

"Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people."
- Will Cuppy
(Related: People, Respect)