Oswald Barron quotes

“Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.”
-- Oswald Barron

Source : Oswald Barron (1924). “Day in and Day Out”

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“Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.”
-- Oswald Barron

#Wall Quotes #Cat Quotes #House Quotes

“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”

“Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.”

“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.”

“Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.”

“Your belief system saturates the space around you.”

“All money is a matter of belief.”

“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”

“Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.”

“Many cats are the death of the mouse.”

“We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.”