Black Cat Quotes

• A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  Confucius

  Cat, Dark, Black

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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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• In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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• Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cat, Men, Animal

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• Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Black

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• When the tea is brought at five o'clock
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
  The little black cat with bright green eyes
  Is suddenly purring there.

  Harold Monro

  Cat, Eye, Poetry

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, Animal, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cat, Black, Riding

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!

  Bela Lugosi

  Baloney

  "Fictional character: Dr. Vitus Verdegast". "The Black Cat", www.imdb.com. 1934.

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• No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Long

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• Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cat, Thinking, Black

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Cat, Ugly Duckling

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway.

  Redman

  Friday, Rap, Cat

  Song: Cosmic Slop

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• A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cat, Dark, Men

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• With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cat, Black, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.82, Penguin Books India

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• Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Long

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• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

  Stephen King

  Fathers Day, Mother, Cat

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheist, Cat, Dark

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Party, Cat, Glasses

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.74, Penguin

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• Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful! Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Prayer, Cat, Black

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.234, Random House Books for Young Readers

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