CATS

Catsandmonkeysömonkeysand catsöall humanlifeis there!

—James, Henry

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

—Tessimond, A(rthur) S(eymour) J(ohn)

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

—Krutch,JosephWood

The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars.

—Sackville-West,Vita (Victoria Mary)

   The evil inthisworld iscommitted by thespiritual fatcats who think that they are without sin because theyare unwilling to suffer the discomfort of significant self- examination.

—Peck, M(organ) Scott

Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.

—Browning, Robert

A lotta cats copy theMona Lisa, but peoplestill lineupto see the original.

—Armstrong, Louis known as Satchmo

   My veins are filled onceaweek with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

—Cheever,JohnWilliam

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

   The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well mortised and finely laid; He was the master of his trade It curiously builded; The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is covered with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded.

—Drayton, Michael

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

—Amis, Sir Kingsley