whiskers quotes

We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary.We, indestructible!

- Gu«  nter Wilhelm Grass
  Die Ratten (translated as The Rat,1987).

He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!

- Edward Lear
NonsenseSongs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Pobble Who Has No Toes'.