“He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.”
Piccadilly Jim (1918)
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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.
“He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.”
Source: The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XI
Variant: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven