Cat Lover Quotes

• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

  Faye Resnick

  Hate, Cat, People

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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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• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Affection, Slave

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

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• Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

  Pam Brown

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, 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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• Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

  Louis J. Horvitz

  Running, Cat, People

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  It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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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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• Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

  Paul Gray

  Cat, Animal, Men

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• After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

  Charlotte Gray

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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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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• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Life, Leadership

  Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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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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• 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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• If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

  George Mikes

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

  Albert Einstein

  Cat, Rainy Day, Men

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• Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

  John Weitz

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Animal Behavior, Difficult

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