Cat Quotes - Page 5

• A dog doesn't want very much and is happy with that. A cat doesn't know what he wants and wants more of it.

  Mills Lane

  Dog, Want, Knows

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• You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Dog, Attitude

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• Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Protocol, Kitty Cat, Unimportant

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1985.

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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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• I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

  Joyce Stranger

  Lying, Grace, Arrogance

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• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  Eddie Izzard

  Going Away, Scams, Deals

  Twitter post from Feb 3, 2015

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

  Lewis Carroll

  Habit, Kitten, Purring

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

  Helen Rowland

  Running, Men, Feet

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.20, Litres

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• Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

  Jack Kerouac

  Moon, Purring Cats, Purring

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• Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.

  Paul Gray

  Long, Pet, Remember

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• When they are among us cats are angels

  George Sand

  Angel, Pet

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• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doe, Care, Shelter

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

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• The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

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• The cat is a dilettante in fur.

  Theophile Gautier

  Fur, Dilettantes

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

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• I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Thinking, Allergies

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• Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

  David H. Levy

  Tails, Want, Comets

  David H. Levy (2003). “David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

  Harry Lorayne

  Ignorance, Healthy, Curiosity

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• Cats sleep fat and walk thin.

  Rosalie Moore

  Sleep, Fats, Walks

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• After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

  Charlotte Gray

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

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• A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Beautiful, Size, Honest

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.

  Beverley Nichols

  Eye, Garden, Magic

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• No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Gratitude, Winning, Favors

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• Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

  Robert Southey

  Animal, Garden, Pet

  "The Doctor, &c".

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• A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Ideas, Kitten

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