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Quotes" About Cats
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more
confidence that the animal belongs to you. - - - Alan Ayckbourn "Table Manners" Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. - - - Ambrose Bierce Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. - - - Mary Bly The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat. - - - Charles J. Brady A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. - - - Arthur Bridges Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. - - - Dr Louis J. Camuti I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - - - Jean Cocteau There are no ordinary cats. - - - Colette Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. - - - Robertson Davies Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation. - - - Philippe Diolé, French biologist. "At the Service of the Heart" Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - - - Missy Dizick Before a cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream. - - - T. S. Eliot When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. - - - T. S. Eliot The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. - - - W. C. Fields The cat is a dilettante in fur. - - - Theophile Gautier Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. - - - Paul Gray What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat. - - - Gail Hamilton Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings. - - - Oliver Herford Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. - - - Lillian Johnson Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - - - Garrison Keillor If cats could talk, they would lie to you. - - - Rob Kopack The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - - - Doug Larson If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. - - - Doris Lessing "Particularly Cats" No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - - - Abraham Lincoln I gave my cat a bath the other day ... they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that . . . - - - Steve Martin There has never been a cat Who couldn't calm me down By walking slowly Past my chair - - - Rod McKuen When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there. - - - Harold Monro "Milk for the Cat" When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me? - - - Michel deMontaigne Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? I've been to London to look at the Queen. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under the chair. - - - Mother Goose The trouble with a kitten is that... Eventually.... It becomes a cat! - - - Ogden Nash Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy....Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. - - - P. J. O'Rourke A cat pours his body on the floor like water. - - - William Lyon Phelps Cats are a waste of fur. - - - Rita Rudner When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over. - - - Michael Sanders There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - - - Albert Schweitzer One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. - - - Helen Thomson One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. - - - Mark Twain Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - - - Jeff Valdez It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. - - - Cynthia E. Varnado A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. - - - Robert J. Vogel If a dog jumps in 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 |
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