Cat Quotes (4)
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
Aphorisms, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (1990), 108.
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.
'The Enmity Between Generations and Its Probable Ethological Causes'. In Richard I. Evans, Konrad Lorenz: The Man and his Ideas (1975), 227.
See also: | Cabbage (2) | Chimpanzee (3) | Danger (9) | Dog (6) | Fish (11) | Fly (9) | Inhibition (4) | Kill (7) | Monkey (10) | Monster (3) | Suicide (8)
When there are too many deer in the forest or too many cats in the barn, nature restores the balance by the introduction of a communicable disease or virus.
Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? '
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' said the Cat.
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, ' said the Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1898), 53.
See also: | Way (4)