Purring Quotes

• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Cat, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.135, Chartwell

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• I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Purring Cats, Cat Love

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• A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

  Helen Rowland

  Running, Cat, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.20, Litres

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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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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• What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Cat, Care

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

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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• Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.

  Roger Caras

  Stars, Nice, Believe

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

  Hank Ketcham

  Mean, Cat, Animal

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• You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

  Jane Pauley

  Sleep, Cat, Animal

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• A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Perfect, Littles

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• Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

  Jeff Valdez

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

  Pam Brown

  Sleep, Cat, Bed

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• the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Tea, Sound

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• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Earth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

  Emile Chartier

  Cat, Two, Perfect

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• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

  Jeff Valdez

  Funny, Dog, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising independence of a tiger or a leopard while she is hunting in his stables and barns: that she still remains mysterious and remote when she is rubbing herself gently against the legs of her mistress or purring contentedly in front of the fire.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Lying, Cat, Hunting

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.9, Routledge

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• The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Cat, People, Half

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1829). “The Book of the Boudoir”, p.43

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Habit, Kitten

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

  Paul Gallico

  Cat, Secret, Sound

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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