Cat Quotes - Page 7

• Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

  Walter Scott

  Mysterious, Kind, Folks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.

  Eve Babitz

  Running, Moving, Mean

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.134, New York Review of Books

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• The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

  Michael J. Rosen

  Dog, Character

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• Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, People

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

  Camille Paglia

  Self, Naked, Breaking Rules

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

  Gina Barreca

  Humor, Facts, Elude

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• Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

  Angela Kinsey

  Dog, Interesting, Faces

  "INTERVIEW: Angela Kinsey on The Friskies and Grumpy Cat". Interview with Kristine Cannon, www.sheknows.com. October 15, 2013.

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• No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Tired, Mind, Sitting

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• I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Men, Comedy

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & Lances”, New York : Harper

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• We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

  St. George Jackson Mivart

  Mind, Becoming

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• What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Names, People, Needs

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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• The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Animal, Trouble, Tact

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• All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Clever, Pigs

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• Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

  John Weitz

  Animal, Humanity, Slim

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Dog, Zebras

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• As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Animal, Humanity

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• Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Ideas, Narcissist

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• Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

  Margaret Benson

  Dog, Staff, Owners

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Bravery, Pet, Ears

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• Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

  Louis J. Horvitz

  Running, People, Different

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• Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

  John Dobbin

  Sleep, Stealing, Protect You

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• Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Quality, Hard

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• Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Appearance, Wells

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• A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

  Stephen King

  Country, Religious, Hypocrite

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

  Leonard Michaels

  Animal, Shy, Secretive

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