Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
top ↑
Similar topics in Freebase
-
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
-
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
-
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
-
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
-
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
-
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
-
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
-
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
-
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
You can help improve this topic by adding more facts here
