Alley Cats Quotes

• If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Cat, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Death, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Cat, Past

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• Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

  Don Marquis

  Cat, Life Is, Kitten

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

  Don Marquis

  Cat, Zest, Sea

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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