Cat Quotes - Page 13

• If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

  Drew Barrymore

  Ashes, Want, Littles

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• There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

  Paul Gallico

  Dog, Hate, Training

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.

  Alvah Bessie

  Canaries, Said

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• I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Pet, Transformed

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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

  People, Half, World

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

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• In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Burning, Vegetarian, Building

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• I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.

  Stephen Harper

  Dog, Thinking, People

  "Global National" with Kevin Newman, April 5, 2006.

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• You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dog, Excited, Should

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 26, 2012

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Sunday, Two, Gentleman

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• I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

  Nafisa Joseph

  Dog, Pet, Used

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• You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Fighting

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

  Cleveland Amory

  Mind, Inability, Realizing

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Milk, Ifs

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• The fog comes on little cat feet.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fog, Feet, Littles

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Average

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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, Bed, Trouble

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• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Novelists, Want

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

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• I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Dog, Men, Different

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.117, A&C Black

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• A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Pet, Literature

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• You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.

  Kate Sanborn

  May

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• Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

  David Mitchell

  Girl, Earth, Littles

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.229, Vintage

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• In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

  Beryl Reid

  House, Important, Shut Up

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• The cat in gloves catches no mice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gloves, Poor Richard, Mice

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

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• [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

  Theophile Gautier

  Lying, Knees, Evening

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