Cat Quotes - Page 22

• The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

  Eric Gurney

  Lying, Personality, Soul

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.24, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Land, Feet

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• Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

  Barbara Mertz

  People, Lap, Picks

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• Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Smell, Watches, Rooms

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• My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Animal, Humanity, Sign Language

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• It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

  Susan Howatch

  Animal, Humanity, Sentimental

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• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  Kandyse McClure

  Cute, Thinking, Cuddling

  "Talking About Werewolves with Kandyse McClure of Hemlock Grove". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

  Pam Brown

  Light, Doors, Cry

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• Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

  Eric Gurney

  Mistake, Animal, Clothes

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, People, Ifs

  "Conversations with William S. Burroughs".

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• His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.

  Derek Tangye

  Beautiful, Autumn, Light

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• The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

  Lynne Truss

  Home, Advantage

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• It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Animal, Humanity, Roaming

  Veto message in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, vol. 3, (pp. 73 - 74), April 23, 1949.

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• When the cats away, the mice will play.

  Bob Marley

  Animal, Play, Mice

  Song: Rate Race, Album: Rastaman Vibration

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• Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Wish, Rumor

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• Just what part of meow don't you understand?

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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• My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

  Kathy Young

  Air, Three, Buffets

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• Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Gnosis, Degrees, Bishops

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Sleep, Independent

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• There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Exercise, Men, Animal

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

  Diane Frolov

  Art, House, Ink

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• I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

  Johnny Carson

  Want, Today, Lawyer

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• Dogs own space and cats own time.

  Nicola Griffith

  Dog, Space

  Nicola Griffith (2013). “Hild: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan

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