Cat Quotes - Page 26

• They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Nine, Know How, Knows

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• Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

  Leigh Hunt

  Comfort

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”

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• Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

  Nick Clooney

  Dog, Apples, Population

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• Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hunger, Pops

  Interview with Brett Christensen, wisconsinmusic.net. February 23, 2005.

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• Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

  Phil Donahue

  Success, Animal, Class

  Phil Donahue (1986). “The Human Animal”, Touchstone

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• I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Night, Nice, Rain

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• In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Strong, Mind

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• When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Needs, Speak

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• I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.

  Laura Dern

  Bad Mood, Easy, Mood

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• If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

  Sergio Aragones

  Halos, Tails, Ifs

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• Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

  Mel Brooks

  Angel, Reason, Mice

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Men, Self

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

  Josh Billings

  Character, Men, Names

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• The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

  Elmer Davis

  Would Be, Identification, Collars

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• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Remarkable, Glad

  John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

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• I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

  Vasily Grossman

  Beautiful, Dog, Want

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

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• Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Eye, Stuff

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenage, Party, Pet

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

  Scott Lynch

  Hands, Giving, Wagers

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1112, Random House

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• Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

  Holly Black

  Voice, Delight, Littles

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• I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

  Laini Taylor

  Wish, Said

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• Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

  Tim Minchin

  Graduation, Powerful, People

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Kings, Hopeful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1975, Delphi Classics

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• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Laughing, Dialect

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