Cat Quotes - Page 20

• If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Going Away, Noses, Done

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pet, Helpful, Moments

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• Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

  Keith Douglas

  Happiness, Hate, Swans

  Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Distance, Intelligent

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• The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Humanity, Comfort

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Independent, Winning

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• Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

  Del Shannon

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• Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Needs

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• The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sex, Men, Honor

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• You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

  Pam Brown

  Caves, World, Paws

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• A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

  Pam Brown

  Fighting, Men, Gentleman

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• People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

  Betty White

  Dog, People, Staff

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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  Pam Brown

  Inspirational, Home, House

  Pam Brown (1997). “Kittens!”, Helen Exley Gift Books

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• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

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• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pet, Individualism, Feline

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

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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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• Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

  Robert Graves

  Dog, Book, Support

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

  James Herriot

  Pet, Comfort, Connoisseur

  James Herriot (2012). “Vet in Harness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Garden, Intelligence

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

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• 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

  Insomnia, Pet, Different

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

  Juliette Lewis

  Pet, Kind, Imagine

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Animal

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

  Shirley Manson

  Family, Sister, Girlfriend

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Animal, Humanity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Success, God

  Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)

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