[3453] in Humor
Cat Sayings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter H. Brenton)
Wed May 2 09:51:49 2001
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:50:04 -0400
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From: "Peter H. Brenton" <pbrenton@MIT.EDU>
I'd never seen this one before...
Thoughts On Cats
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants
breakfast."
- Anonymous
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as
gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
- Anonymous
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight
cats to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez
"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
- English proverb
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"One cat just leads to another."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a
message and get back to you later."
- Mary Bly
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are
subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard
of one who suffered from insomnia."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"People that hate cats, will come back as mice in
their next life."
- Faith Resnick
"There are many intelligent species in the
universe. They are all owned by cats."
- Anonymous
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats.
The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
- Hippolyte Taine
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and
cruel. True, and they have many other fine
qualities as well."
- Missy Dizick
"You will always be lucky if you know how to
make friends with strange cats."
- Colonial American proverb
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never
does any harm to ask for what you want."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat
spit."
- John S. Nichols
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are
subtle and will pee on your computer."
- Bruce Graham