Strange Cats

You will always be lucky if you know how to make

friends with strange cats.

--Colonial American proverb

Because

"Why did I write?

Because I found life unsatisfactory."

--Tennessee Williams

Not Worthwhile

"It is not worthwhile to go around the world

to count the cats in Zanzibar."

--Henry David Thoreau

Philosophers

"What sort of philosophers are we,

who know absolutely nothing

about the origin and destiny of cats?"

--Henry David Thoreau

Equal

"All animals are equal

but some animals are more equal than others."

--George Orwell, Animal Farm

Turtle

"All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tools

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

--Henry David Thoreau

A Vegetable Invented

"An onion can make people cry,

but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."

--Will Rogers

Four Legs

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

--George Orwell, Animal Farm

City Life

"Millions of people being lonesome together."

--Henry David Thoreau

A Comma

"This morning I took out a comma

and this afternoon I put it back again."

--Oscar Wilde

A New Day

"Finish each day and be done with it.... You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson