Pets Cats Quotes

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Hippolyte Taine

Funny, Witty, Cat

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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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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

Dog, Eye, Animal

Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.73, A&C Black

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Michel de Montaigne

Funny, Humor, Cat

Essais bk. 2, ch. 12 (1580)

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

Cat, Eye, Kitten

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Edgar Allan Poe

Inspirational, Life, Writing

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Mark Twain

Funny, Home, Humor

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurber

Dog, Nature, Animal

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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Neil Gaiman

Kings, Cat, Owning A Pet

"A Dream of a Thousand Cats". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series, issue #18, 1990.

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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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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

Jean Burden

Cat, Animal, Fire

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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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In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

"Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits" by Dusty Rainbolt, (p. 7), 2007.

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

Jeff Valdez

Dog, Believe, Cat

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Love, Sympathy, Death

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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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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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney

Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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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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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

Funny, Life, Leadership

Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.

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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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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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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Life, Dog, Sorry

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Love, Friendship, Dog

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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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