cats

If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty, therefore there is an invisible cat in it.

Women do not like timid men. Cats do not like prudent rats.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

I'm not one o' those as can see the cat i' the dairy, an' wonder what she's come after.

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.