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.
Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad.
Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.
You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
I am the cat that cuddles and purrs but unleashes its claws for the dignity of man!
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
I regret that you have but one pie to give for my tummy. (Famous cat quotes)
The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell our Dog,
Ruleth all England under a Hog.