流れるような肢体に、艶やかで滑らかな皮毛を持つ美しき存在……猫。 |
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猫vs犬 |
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猫とは…… |
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美しき猫 |
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ミステリアスな猫 |
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意のままにならない猫 |
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誇り高き猫 |
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参考文献 |
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. (Desmond Morris) A dog is prose; a cat is a poem. (Jean Burden) Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.(作者不詳) You own a dog; you feed a cat. (Sneaky Pie Brown) Dogs eat. Cats dine. (Ann Taylor) Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. (Mary Bly) A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. (George Mikes) You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. (George Mikes) Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. (Eleanor Clark) With dogs and people, its's love in big splashy colors. when you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels. (Louis A. Camuti) A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybod loves him. (William Kunstler) Subtle, the opposite of dogs, If animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much. (Carl Van Vechten) To Someone Very Good and Just, Dogs instinctively realize that cats are smarter than they are, so they resent the intrusion of a cat upon the household. (Eric Gurney) Cats are the ultimate narcissicts. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. (James Gorman) The cat, an aristocrat, merits our esteem, while the dog is only a scurvy type who got his position by low flatteries. (Alexandre Dumas) A cat has a terrific sense of humor, but it seems nothing funny or cute parading in doll's clothes. A dachshund, on the other hand, is delighted to be dressed in little lederhosen and an Alpine sweater. (Robert Stearns) A cat sleeping on your bed is a far more pleasant companion than a ninety-pound Labrador with bad breath. Furthermore, cats do not snore or break wind. (H. Monger Burdock) The cat lets Man support her. But unlike the dog, she is no hand-licker. Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend, the hourse, the cat is not sweating serf of Man. They only labor she condenscends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun. (Vance Packard) Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo. (James Gorman) As a pet, a dog is your good buddy, and he communicates with you. A cat is your good byddy too, but he just doesn't speak your language. (Peter Borchelt) Reseachers have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of two thousand words, whereas cats can only comprehend twenty-five to fifty. No one ever asks how many cats words researchers can comprehend. What is the difference between dog owners and cat owners? To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. At a stage of culture when utiliity governs all of its judgements, mankind prefers the dog. (Erasmus Darwin) Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statemen going about their affairs at their own pace. Dogs are the peasants dutifully plodding behind their leaders. (Robert Stearns) If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. (Alfred North Whitehead) I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Winston Churchill) The tongue of a cat is poison, the tongue of a dog cures. (フランスの格言) If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. (Mark Twain) When it comes to the advantages of cats versus dogs as pets, there is no competition. Try going away for a weekend, leaving your German Shepherd alone with a bowl of dry food, some water, and a litter box. (Robert Stearns) Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. (Helen Powers) There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it. The cat covers it up if he can. (Paul Galico) The cat, which is a solitarybeast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind. (H. G. Wells) A cat sees us as the dog. A cat sees himself as the human. (unknown) Again I must remind you that A Dog's a Dog -- A CAT'S A CAT. (T.S. Eliot) |
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. (Loenardo da Vinci) The cat is above all things, a dramatist. (Margaret Benson) Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. (James Herriot) A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. (Hazel Nicholson) The cat is a dilettante in fur. (Theophile Gautier) A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. (Vakaoka Genrin) Cats are endless opportunities for revelation. (Leslie Kapp) CAT, n: (1) A lapwarmer with a built-in buzzer. (Anonymous) CAT: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford) Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship. (John Bush) |