[T]he best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same cat.
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.
In death too, there is always something of the rich cat that lets the mouse run before devouring it
Harlem had been hit by a hurricane: It was raining cats and jazz.
I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.
'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats
The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages,
By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!
Better a mouse between two cats than a sick man between two doctors.