Will Cuppy
Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.Collection: Names
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.Collection: Peace
Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!Collection: Florida
[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.Collection: Males
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.Collection: Writing
It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.Collection: Science
The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.Collection: Voiceless
I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.Collection: Ideas
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 there.Collection: People
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.Collection: Party
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.Collection: Tunnels
I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.Collection: Believe
Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.Collection: Thinking
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.Collection: Crow
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.Collection: Males
The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.Collection: Animal
The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.Collection: Zebras
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.Collection: Home
Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]Collection: Country