Herding Cats Quotes

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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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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• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

  Jeff Valdez

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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

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

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Animal

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happy, Humorous, Cat

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

  Jeff Valdez

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

  Al Sharpton

  Cat, Democrat, Organized

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

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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

  Faye Resnick

  Hate, Cat, People

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• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Earth

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

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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. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Cat, Thinking

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

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• My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Husband, Cat, Missing

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• Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

  Gerald Holton

  Cat, Done, Wells

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• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

  Dan Greenburg

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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• Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

  David Platt

  Senior, Cat, Computer

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• Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

  John Naughton

  Character, Cat, Awkward

  John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK

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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, Cat, Animal

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

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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, Cat, Thinking

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

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• Making movies is like herding cats.

  Eric Fellner

  Cat

  "The producers". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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