“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Song lyrics
Source: "Cat Scratch Fever" on Cat Scratch Fever (1977)
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Yeo Bee Yin (1983) Malaysian Politician
Yeo Bee Yin (2018) cited in " Yeo: You don't need to know me, you need to know how https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/07/12/yeo-you-dont-need-to-know-me-you-need-to-know-how/" on The Star Online, 12 July 2018
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964). <br class="br">Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.
50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer
Don't Push Me
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Straight from the Heart, written by Bryan Adams and Eric Kagna
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle. <br class="br">Book II, Ch. 12 <br class="br">The 1595 edition adds: “We entertain each other with reciprocal monkey tricks. If I have my time to begin or to refuse, so has she hers.” As quoted in Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am https://books.google.it/books?id=y8Drc-QghEIC&pg=PT21, trans. David Wills, Fordham University Press, 2008. <br class="br">Essais (1595), Book II
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.