Cat Quotes - Page 21

• It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

  Agnes Repplier

  Giving, Pet, Alertness

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

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• If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Men, Pet

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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, Animal, Humanity

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

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

  Steven Wright

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Curiosity

  "I Have A Pony". Comedy album by Steven Wright, 1985.

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• Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fighting, Animal

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.9, 谷月社

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• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

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• Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

  Byron Nelson

  Sports, Golf, Different

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• I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Funny, Witty, Animal

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• A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

  Joseph Epstein

  Jobs, Animal, Humanity

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• I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Humanity, Stealing

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [64]

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• Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Play, Expectations, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.222

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• I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

  Bill Dana

  Animal, Two, Humanity

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• Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  W. L. George

  Pet, And Love, Shelter

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• One cat just leads to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

  Barbara Holland

  Writing, Animal, Keys

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

  E. W. Howe

  Animal, Humanity, Trying

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• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

  Jean Burden

  Animal, Fire, Humanity

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• Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

  Roger Caras

  Feel Good, Way, Feels

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Purring Cats, Cat Love, Aesthetic

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• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  Walter de La Mare

  Doors, Long, Sides

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Long, Victory, Wish

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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• Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.

  John Bush

  Lasts, Chance, Dysfunctional Relationship

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