Cat Quotes - Page 2

• Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

  Susy Clemens

  Perfect, Nine, Nine Lives

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• A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Men

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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, Emotional, Feelings

  "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, Animal, Work Out

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• I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'

  Dilys Laing

  Book, Animal, Giving

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• when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

  Charles Bukowski

  Courage, Feelings, Pet

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Motivational, Animal

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• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Animal, Humanity

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• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Stars, Believe, Ocean

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• Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

  Erma Bombeck

  Self Esteem, Insecure, Body

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• Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

  Walter Scott

  Mind, Mysterious, Kind

  "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: Newstead Abbey; Abbotsford".

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• Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  People, Pet, Furniture

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• There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Animal, Humanity, Bites

  Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”

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• Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

  W. H. Auden

  Way, Glad

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• Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.

  Tran Thien Khiem

  Dog, Fire, House

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• Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

  Pam Brown

  Self, Secret, Company

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• Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

  Ilona Andrews

  Order, Prove, Refuse

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.47, Penguin

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• I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value.

  Geoffrey Household

  Silly, Appreciate, Entertainment

  Geoffrey Household (2010). “Rogue Male”, p.76, New York Review of Books

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• A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dog, Cancer, Watches

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• A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

  George Mikes

  Dog

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• Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

  Veronique Vienne

  Knowledge And Power, Meditation, Syrup

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• Books, Cats, Life is Good.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Life Is Good, Personality

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• My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Husband, Missing, Sometimes

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• A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Animal, Divine

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