Cats Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them”

— Ginnetta Correli

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and…

— Peter York

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns…

— A.S. Byatt

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

— Francis Bacon

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano

“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the women who've…

— Nancy Boutilier

Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true…

— James Anthony Froude

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without understanding and,…

— Muriel Barbery

“Merlin: "Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit lately, I notice, of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. I trust…

— T H White

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

— Plato