One my new followers, KnightOwl, has a site called Cats World, so I thought I'd toss in a few cat quotes, old and new.
"If you could combine a cat and a dog, you'd have man's best accomplice."
"In a world of doors, the inability to open a door can be mistaken for a desire to lie under the dining room table."
"I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off."
"At the family's insistence, Aunt Viv consulted a psychoanalyst, who tells her that her need to own ten cats is really a sublimated desire to own twenty cats."
And a thought on animals, generally...
"Do animals ever question their Maker? Perhaps not, and yet... there is this howling at the moon."
Here's one for Maureen, a retired English teacher who stopped by the other day.
A couple on parenting and kids...
"What first-time parents soon realize is that the maternity ward was working on three shifts."
"A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review."
And a few miscellaneous maunderings...
"My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, each time failing to insert a bookmark."
"Life is a series of stages, each preparation for the previous."
"Eventually, every politician comes to believe that you need not legislate action; you can just pass a law mandating the consequences."
"Word from Washington is that the President remains open to new ideas, although he has completed his memoirs through 2016."
"I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder."
~~ Robert Brault
15 comments:
Thanks for the promotion Robert. Made my day. And finding your Blog made several more days. I'm always searching for quotes and wise words. I am certainly enjoying your writings. I've just begun to explore here.
I be the KnightOwl, aka Roy Sr, aka TheWizardSgtPop
Boy did you ever nail the cats personality. Fun read Robert.
Roy,
Welcome and explore away. Just one small request of visitors here -- all cats on a leash. (smile)
Marlene,
Thanks. It's almost cheating to think up quips about cats. There is no easier subject.
smiles,
rb
I used to wonder why I was not too fond of cats, for no apparent reason. Well there was a reason and it's here....
"... My dog came running to greet me, and I have a 2:30 appointment with my cat.".....:) Thanks for the 'catty' quote...LOL!!
khushi,
Thanks for stopping by. It was getting lonely around here, with just me and my cat.
smiles,
rb
Now I know what's wrong with me! I have attention surplus disorder... and a cat!
Maxie,
There will no charge for the diagnosis. (smile)
rb
"In a world of doors, the inability to open a door can be mistaken for a desire to lie under the dining room table." i love it much and put it at top of all this post...
for many a case people misunderstand the action and define it boldy, genuinely and convincibly...
truth plays somewhere else...
rgrds/salu
"Life is a series of stages, each preparation for the previous." I can't find the words that conveys why I like this quote so much but they are there somewhere. I also love the quote on grammar.
Enjoy your self imposed exile Robert and I look forward to seeing you again in a week or so ;)
salu,
I love your closing thought, "...truth plays somewhere else", avoiding, presumably, the playground of lies and deceit.
Ken,
Thanks, and welcome home from France. Yes, if Brault's back, it must be Thursday.
smiles,
rb
for many a case people misunderstand the action and define it boldy, genuinely and convincibly...
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Robert, you make me so sad... in many of your words I see great wisdom, a sort of sagacious knowing seems to permeate your quotes. And yet your damnable religious quotes shatter the illusion of understanding, revealing just another terracotta face like those of the underground army of China. Each one technically unique, but fundamentally the same. You have said "I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose." I was once a believer, but was converted by the organ of logic between my ears, a wonder of nature fed by itself and other natural wonders: my eyes, my ears, my nose, my skin... To wander from the narrow corridor of religion into the great outdoors of true knowledge is a phenomenal experience, but one that takes bravery, for we were raised as agoraphobes.
Hephaestus
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I dispute your notion that there is a "great outdoors of true knowledge." True knowledge is not given to mere mortals, no more to natural scientists than to religious believers. As a truth-seeker, I find religion too easy a target and refuse to snipe at it. I'd rather snipe at the sacred tenets of science, whose cosmic theory is no more logical than religious revelation but, alas, gives no solace. Consider the notions of dark matter, dark energy and dark flow, the Holy Trinity of cosmology, arrant mysteries all, invisible to the eyes, ears, nose and skin, yet touted as actualities because without them there is no logical theory of the universe.
There is no "great wisdom" in my words, no "sagacious knowing." There is only a skepticism spread fairly, I would hope. The missionaries on either side of my nose tell me of things I do not understand and leave open to me all explanations, including religion.
smiles,
rb
Hi Robert,
I'd like to request permission to use a quote of yours however your email address: 'bobbrault@att.net' is bouncing back as undeliverable. Do you have a different contact address?
Thanks very much,
Lisette
Lisette,
I received several new messages at my email address this morning, including your comment, which was forwarded to my address. I can only suggest trying again.
rb
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