Inspirational Cat Quotes

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

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  I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Home, Cat

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

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• I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Purring, Purring Cats

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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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• 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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• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Cat, Emotional

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

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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 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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  If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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

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• Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

  Jim Davis

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

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

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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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• 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 believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Earth

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

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• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

  Rod McKuen

  Sleep, Cat, Pet

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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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• If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher

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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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• You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

  Jane Pauley

  Sleep, Cat, Animal

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• If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  Will Cuppy

  Cat, Animal, Doe

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• Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cat, Play, Expectations

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.222

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

  Ellen Perry

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  W. L. George

  Cat, Pet, And Love

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• Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

  Paul Gray

  Cat, Animal, Men

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