“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”
Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 1
“You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?”
Source: Skywriting by Word of Mouth and Other Writings
“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Attributed to Lincoln in Mark Gold (1998), Animal century . Also attributed to Rowland Hill in Henry Woodcock (1879), Wonders of Grace
Misattributed
“Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat.”
Source: Sirius (1944), Chapter VIII Sirius at Cambridge.
