
“507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Cat that Walked by Himself.
Just So Stories (1902)
Source: The Cat That Walked By Himself
“507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
Quand je me joue à ma chatte, qui sait si elle passe son temps de moi, plus que je ne fais d'elle.
Book II, Ch. 12
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.
Essais (1595), Book II
“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once.
i am the walrus.”
"EL FUCKING NIÑO, in which i post no pictures of pirates" at AFP : Amanda Palmer's blog http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/451829875/el-fucking-nino-in-which-i-post-no-pictures-of
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
"I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems, chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77
“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”
Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber (January 1931) as quoted in "T.S. Eliot's Private Letters To Faber Publishing Family To Be Sold" at World Collector's Net http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/news/newstories/news736.html (12 August 2005)
Source: Four Quartets
Context: I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
Song of the White Bison Woman who brought the sacred pipe to men.
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.