Oliver Herford , scrittore e illustratore statunitense.
“Osservare un gatto è come assistere alla realizzazione di un'opera d'arte.”
Origine: Citato in Gloria Fossi (a cura di), 100 gatti nell'arte, Giunti, Firenze – Milano, 2015, [//books.google.it/books?id=_8CzCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT15 pag]. ISBN 978-88-09-80637-5
“Gatto: un leone pigmeo che ama i topi, odia i cani e si crede superiore agli essere umani.”
Origine: Citato in Aa. Vv., Il gatto con gli stivali e tante altre storie di gatti, traduzioni di Rita Gatti et al., Newton & Compton, 2011.
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
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“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
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Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.
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Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
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“Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.”
The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.
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“There is no time like the pleasant.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
Misattributed
“Many are called but few get up.”
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
“Age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
Misattributed
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.”
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
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“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
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“I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.”
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
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The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).
“Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 72 (1955), p. 156.
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