James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"My Senegalese Birds and Siamese Cats", Holiday Magazine; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
“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
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Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Source: The Greatest My Own Story
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1941) American writer and activist
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 2
“It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
Eleanor H. Porter book Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Works, Pollyanna (1913)
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.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
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“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