Pets Quotes
Shakespeare, Robert Heinlein, Jane Goodall, John Heywood and Mark Twain share the top places. Twain, in What Is Man? (1906), is withering about man’s vanity in calling an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Bertrand Russell, in 1948, points out that a dog cannot relate his autobiography or tell you that his parents were honest but poor, and Bierce’s definition of a cat is an automaton to be kicked when things go wrong at home.
Three lines are flagged. “Time spent with cats is never wasted,” credited to Sigmund Freud, is marked misattributed. A remark that a cat cannot hide its feelings is credited to Hemingway and disputed, and so is a saying about religion being like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat, credited to Oscar Wilde.
If you treat a dog like a cat, it’ll still act like a dog. Maybe it’s the same with boys and girls.
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
“And thereby hangs a tale,” as the monkey said while describing the cat’s rear-quarters.
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
There are more ways of killing a cat than stuffing it with...
And all your courtly civet cats can vent
Perfume to you, to me is excrement.
Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat.
When the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.