Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You c...an fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"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. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "Mas long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," the Cat said, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"... "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)... Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't want her to have a cat because she'll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That's the way it is, and how can a P.I. do tha...t?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,... Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat,... They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
flex and reflex of claws gently pricking through sweater to skin... gently sustains their own tune, not mine. I-Thou, cat, I-Thou.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »