“You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.” MayRoomsStudentsAnxietyCatPositivelySoothing Book:Chapters on Animals Source: Chapters on Animals
“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.” IfsMenWorldMayHas BeensSeemsMightTogetherHouseCan DoAnimalWonderEnemyDogCreaturesCatFunctionAnimal WorldCat And Dog Author:C. S. Lewis
“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.” MayMadeCertainReadingBitsPoetCatTongueBagsSuspicionDaft Author:Dylan Thomas
“The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.” PeopleHumansMayReasonHateNumbersRaceMoralIntellectualCatHuman RaceDividedConsidering Book:The Fireside Sphinx Source: The Fireside Sphinx
“In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.” IfsMenMaySaidCertainNextTeachMankindMastersDiseaseCatSavedCuresBeing TrueNext Time Book:Back to Methuselah Source: Back to Methuselah