Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary. – Charles Baudelaire Category: Cats
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. – Carl van Vechten Category: Cats
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney Category: Poetry
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson Category: Death
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike Category: Marriage
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan Category: Poverty
