Cat Quotes - Page 17

• I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

  Wendy Liebman

  Mother, Memorable, Water

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• Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Circles, When Things Go Wrong

  Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Ideas, Dinner, Feline

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Had 14 Tales”, p.2, Penguin

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• Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

  Dave Barry

  Smart, Independent, Mean

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• Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

  Lloyd Alexander

  Fun, Two, Owners

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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• A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Perfectly Good, Giving

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• Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

  E. V. Lucas

  Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Rooms

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• There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

  Charles Dickens

  Swings, Rooms

  'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 35

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• People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

  Charlotte Gray

  Animal, People, Humanity

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• Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

  Andre Norton

  People, Creative, Pet

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• Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Animal, Numbers, Humanity

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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• The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

  Italo Calvino

  Animal, Men, Cities

  Italo Calvino (2012). “Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

  Champfleury

  Long, Actors, Delight

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• If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.

  Pat Hitchcock

  Funny, Fall, Laughing

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• The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Animal, Rights, People

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• No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

  William E. Conway, Jr.

  Animal, Rebel, Might

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• A cat is never vulgar.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Vulgar

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

  Robley Wilson

  Animal, Boredom, Humanity

  Robley Wilson (1978). “Living alone: fictions”, Fiction Intl

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• I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs

  Daryl Hannah

  Dog, Horse, Four

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• The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

  Jean Baudrillard

  God, Order, Judging

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• We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

  Greg Ginn

  Home, Saws, Rescue

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hot, Tin, Roof

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• Cats are always elegant.

  John Weitz

  Elegant

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• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

  Mike Royko

  Choices, Cooking, Pet

  Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Stories, Sat

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