Feline Quotes

• People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

  Faye Resnick

  Hate, Cat, People

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• I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Cat, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.135, Chartwell

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

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Friendship, Cat, Animal

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• Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

  Walter Scott

  Cat, Mind, Mysterious

  "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: Newstead Abbey; Abbotsford".

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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, Cat, Men

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

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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

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

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

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• The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Cat, Pet, Masterpiece

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• Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

  Pam Brown

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Animal, Personality

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

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• The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

  Erica Jong

  Cat, Stones, Ghost

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Clouds

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

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• In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Cat, Men

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

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• The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

  Pam Brown

  Sleep, Cat, Bed

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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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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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• Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

  Hank Ketcham

  Mean, Cat, Animal

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• Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

  Jeff Valdez

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Affection, Slave

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

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• One cat just leads to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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

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