Purring Cats Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Purring, Cat Love

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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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• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

  George Mikes

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cat, Animal, Giving

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• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Eye, Kitten

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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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• 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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• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, 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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• I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'

  Dilys Laing

  Book, Cat, Animal

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Cat, Care

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• A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

  Helen Rowland

  Running, Cat, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.20, Litres

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• The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Cat, People, Half

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1829). “The Book of the Boudoir”, p.43

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• It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Giving, Pet

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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