Will Cuppy

Writer

1884-08-23

Quotes by Will Cuppy

• Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

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• We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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• He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

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• Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

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• Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

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• He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

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• We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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• Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

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

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• If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

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

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• 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.

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• The love bird is one hundred per cent faithful to his mate, who is locked in the same cage.

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

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