Cat Love Quotes

• 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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• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Cat, Emotional

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

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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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  The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Doe

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Purring, Purring Cats

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

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

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• When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Men, Introduction

  "Who Is Mark Twain? (An Incident)". Book by Mark Twain, April 21, 2009.

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• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

  Rod McKuen

  Sleep, Cat, Pet

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Home, Cat

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

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• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  Oliver Herford

  Love, Dog, Hate

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

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• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Doe, Care

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Animal

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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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• 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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• I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happy, Humorous, Cat

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• If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Cat, People

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 158), October 2008.

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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  If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, 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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• One cat just leads to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Funny, Wise

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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