Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

- Will Cuppy

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

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

- Will Cuppy

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

- Will Cuppy

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

- Will Cuppy

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

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

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

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

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

- Will Cuppy

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