Will Cuppy Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

  Cat, Animal, Doe

• It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

  Will Cuppy

  Science, Men, Animal

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes".

• Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Men, Race

• 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

  Funny, Animal, Purpose

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

• The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Looks, Hippopotamus

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.113, David R. Godine Publisher

• The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Blood, Sloth

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

• As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Passion, Men

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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