Middle ages Quote by Amy Stewart

“...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill…

— Desmond Morris

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a…

— William S. Burroughs

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

— Kaspar Hauser

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

— Gunter Grass

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who…

— Stephen King

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

— Simon R. Green

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst…

— Banksy

“Cats are like witches. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That…

— Terry Pratchett

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

— Dante Alighieri

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

— Anonymous

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions,…

— William S. Burroughs

“We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these things.”

— George Levy