Take a cat, nourish it well with milkAnd tender meat, make it

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all. – Chaucer

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Cats
category

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. – Proverb

Category:
Cats

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. – Carl Van Vechten

Category:
Cats

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Cats

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. – Paul Corey

Category:
Cats

Random Quotes

I read Christopher McDougalls book Born to Run. If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. – Jennifer Carpenter

Category:
Religion

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Perspective

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. – Thomas Merton

Category:
Personality

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

Category:
Jewelry