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Cat Quotes
Part III
Of all animals, he alone attains the Contemplative Life. He regards the wheel of existance from without, like the Buddha. There is no pretense of sympathy about the cat. He lives alone, aloft, sublime, in a wise passiveness. - Andrew Lang
But a cat can't eat a bone or any solid food on a polished surface. When a cat takes a bone off a plate and puts it down on the carpet before eating it, she's told she's dirty. But the cat needs to hold it down with her paw while she crunches and tears it and she can only do it on bare earth or on a carpet. People don't know this. - Colette
In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them - like "Get off" and "Shut up" and things like that. - Beryl Reid
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats. - Honore de Balzac
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. - Leo Dworken
There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of his rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it...The cat covers it up if it can. - Paul Gallico
Calvin's life seems to me a fortunate one, for it was natural and unforced. He ate when he was hungry, slept when he was sleepy, and enjoyed existence to the very tips of his toes and the end of his expressive and slow-moving tail. - Charles Dudley Warner
Purring beside our fireplaces and pattering along our back fences, we have got a wild beast as uncowed and uncorrupted as any under heaven. - Alan Devoe
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm. - Charles Horton Cooley
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. - Doris Lessing
The Dog gives himself the Airs of a Cat. - Sir Richard Steele
You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you. - Helen Powers
Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place. - Lynn Hollyn
Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. - Robert Sterns
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. - William S. Burroughs
But a cat can't eat a bone or any solid food on a polished surface. When a cat takes a bone off a plate and puts it down on the carpet before eating it, she's told she's dirty. But the cat needs to hold it down with her paw while she crunches and tears it and she can only do it on bare earth or on a carpet. People don't know this. - Colette
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. - Mary Bly
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. - Roy Blount, Jr.
Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetés and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for. - Bernard Taper
I have as companion a big greyish-red cat with black stripes across it. It was born in the Vatican, in the Raphael Ioggia. Leo XII brought it up in a fold of his robes where I had often looked at it enviously when the Pontiff gave me an audience...It was called "the Pope's cat." In this capacity, it used to enjoy the special consideration of pious ladies. I am trying to make it forget exile, the Sistine Chapel, the sun on Michelangelo's cupola, where it used to walk, far above the earth. - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier
In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them - like "Get off" and "Shut up" and things like that. - Beryl Reid
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats. - Honore de Balzac
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. - Leo Dworken
There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of his rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it...The cat covers it up if it can. - Paul Gallico
Calvin's life seems to me a fortunate one, for it was natural and unforced. He ate when he was hungry, slept when he was sleepy, and enjoyed existence to the very tips of his toes and the end of his expressive and slow-moving tail. - Charles Dudley Warner
Purring beside our fireplaces and pattering along our back fences, we have got a wild beast as uncowed and uncorrupted as any under heaven. - Alan Devoe
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm. - Charles Horton Cooley
Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed? - Winifred Carriere
"Oh cat" I'd say, or pray: "Be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat." - Doris Lessing
A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them." - Sidney Denham
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare. - Joyce Stranger
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
He was sitting in front of the door. It is a known fact that if one sits long enough in front of a door, doing the proper yoya exercises, the door will open. - May Sarton
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. - May Winifred Carriere
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives? - Louis J. Camuti, DVM
The cat is truly aristocratic in type and origin. - Alexandre Dumas
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. - Stephen Baker
A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do. - Bill Adler
Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat? - Robert Stearns
Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature. - Paul Annixter
What in hell have I done to deserve all these kittens? - Don Marquis
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. - Miguel de Cervantes
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. - Joan Asper McIntosh
Kittens are constantly forgiven. - Douglas Wilk
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. - Lady Sydney Morgan
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. - Mark Twain
Oh heaven will not ever Heaven be unless my cats are there to welcome me. - Epitaph in a Pet Cemetery
The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A cat is always on the wrong side of the door. - Anonymous
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. - Helen Powers
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln
Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo. - James Gorman
Some men are born to cats, others have cats thrust upon them. - Gilbert Millstein
Again I must remind you that A Dog's a Dog - A CAT'S A CAT. - T.S. Eliot
The best exercise for a cat is another cat. - Jo and Paul Loeb
The tail, in cats, is the principal organ of emotional expression, and a Manx cat is the equivalent of a dumb man. - Aldous Huxley
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