Cat Quotes - Page 11

• A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

  Judith Merkle Riley

  Wall, Heart, Sunshine

  Judith Merkle Riley (2006). “A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel”, p.251, Crown

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• A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

  Jean Burden

  Dog, Animal, Humanity

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• The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

  Margaret Benson

  Animal, Humanity, All Things

  Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”

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• The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Mean, Animal, Cities

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

  Dan Greenburg

  Writing, Animal, Perfect

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• Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

  Michelle Gardner

  Silly, Simple, Thinking

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• If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

  Bruce Fogle

  Animal, Humanity, Would Be

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• It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

  Mickey Rivers

  Dog, Animal, Pet

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• Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.” – Death “I try to keep my stupid to a bare minimum, since my mom’s always telling me it can be fatal in large doses.” – Nick “Oh, she’s right. Believe me, I know. For that matter, it can be fatal even in small measures. Remind me sometime to tell you about the woman I claimed who was vacuuming her cat.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Mom, Jobs

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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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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Atheist, Dark, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Pockets, Want, Determined

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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

  Monica Edwards

  Animal, Safety, Humanity

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• People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

  Faye Resnick

  Hate, People, Next

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• The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

  Erica Jong

  Stones, Ghost, Alleyways

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• The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

  Robertson Davies

  Attitude, Responsibility, Devil

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Couple, Dad, Hate

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). “A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

  Evan Mandery

  Believe, Evil, Evidence

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• For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

  Aino Kallas

  Fashion, Devil, Clay

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

  Don Marquis

  Zest, Sea, Lazy

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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• Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

  Rebecca West

  Doubt, Comfort, Mysterious

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

  Arthur Symons

  Eye, Magic

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• ...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

  Cleveland Amory

  Sleep, Way, Shows

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

  Gillian Flynn

  Pain, Sleep, Injury

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.69, Broadway Books

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