Cat Quotes - Page 14

• When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Play, Pastime

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Real, Thinking

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• One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Memories, Eye, Train Of Thought

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

  C. J. Cherryh

  Ignorance, Curiosity, Framed

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• My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Mean, House

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• I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

  Bob Dylan

  Cutting, Ears, Kind

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dog, Baby

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• I've always been mad about cats.

  Vivien Leigh

  Mad, Pet, Irritated

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Care, Purring

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• Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

  Rebecca West

  Peace, Bird, Done

  Rebecca West (2012). “The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund”, p.491, Open Road Media

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• A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Tails, Grows

  Mark Twain (1980). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective”, p.316, Univ of California Press

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• If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

  Daniel Handler

  Animal, Humanity, Mouths

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, February 25, 2000.

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• I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

  Julio Cortazar

  Book, Age, Sometimes

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• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

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• If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, 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, Owning A Pet, Adorable

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

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• Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

  Irving Townsend

  Thinking, Expectations, Delight

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• Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

  Emile Chartier

  Two, Perfect, World

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• I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

  Robert Breault

  Moments, Silent, Conversation

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• Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

  Richard Mabey

  Moving, Grace, Needs

  Richard Mabey (2005). “Nature Cure”, p.226, University of Virginia Press

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• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

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• I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

  Joyce Rupp

  Wise, Feelings, Negative

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Stupid, House

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Sexist Beyoncé Rant And Gross History of Women Bashing". www.thedailybeast.com. March 22, 2013.

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• If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

  Antonio Banderas

  Sexy, Dog, Moving

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