Cat Quotes - Page 8

• No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Judging, Comfort

  James Herriot (2012). “James Herriot's Dog Stories”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Men, Remember, Please

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  W. C. Fields

  Clever, Cheesy, Cheese

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.179, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

  John Lennon

  Men, Manicures

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• Where the hell are the singing cats?

  Paul Newman

  Singing, Hell

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. May 19, 2015.

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• My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

  William S. Burroughs

  Ignorance, Saved

  "Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs".

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• To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Viewpoints, Morality, Realizing

  Lilian Jackson Braun (2006). “Two Cats, Three Tales”, p.68, Penguin

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• Cats are only human, they have their faults.

  Kingsley Amis

  Faults, Humans

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• Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Thinking, Authority

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

  Robert Breault

  Two, People, Desire

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• That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

  Donald James

  Mean, Understanding, Looks

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• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Doris Lessing

  Air, Water, Movement

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Rights, Common, Share

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• Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

  Pierre Loti

  Appreciation, Deception, Suggestions

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• A cat is nobody's fool.

  Heywood Broun

  Fool, Animal Rights

  Heywood Broun (1935). “It seems to me, 1925-1935”, 1935.

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• "All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

  Lewis Carroll

  Tails, Gone, Grinning

  1865 The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

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• Cats are designated friends.

  Norman Corwin

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• What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Destiny, Philosopher, Absolutely Nothing

  Henry David Thoreau, Wesley T. Mott, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2005). “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”, p.65, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Missing, Mercy, Dictionary

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

  Marie Corelli

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hair, Suits, Said

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.550, Macmillan

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• Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Blood, Maids, Failing

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• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Next Day, Yellow, Doors

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

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• All cats look gray in the dark.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dark, Looks, Gray

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