“Whiskers of the cat,
Webbed toes on my swimming dog;
God is in the details.”
Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows
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American author 1945Related quotes
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
Context: A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats”
Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
Context: Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.
“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author
Source: The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”
Desmond Morris (1928) English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter
Desmond Morris (2009), Catwatching. p. 2
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1941) American writer and activist
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 2
