Cat Quotes - Page 28

• 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

  Owl, Paws, Praying

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• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Mind, Kingdoms

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• The thing about cats, as you may find,
  Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

  John Ciardi

  Mind, Might, Knows

  "You read to me, I'll read to you".

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• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Tongue, Smooth, Sponges

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• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Vanity, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

  Doris Day

  Havens

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• My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

  Studs Terkel

  Curiosity, Epitaph

  "Studs Terkel, voice of America's uncelebrated, dies aged 96" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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• Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

  Robert Lowell

  Past, Climbing, Talking

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, People, Inanimate Objects

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• What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Gold, Female

  1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23-4.

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• The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

  John Heywood

  Fishes, Wet

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hurt, Men, People

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 72: John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.85, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Moving, Mean

  "Voter intimidation–guess the party". Interview with Pat Gray, www.glennbeck.com.

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• A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Self, Serious

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• Cats will always lie soft.

  Theocritus

  Lying

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• My cat can eat a whole watermelon.

  Crispin Glover

  Whole

  "Fictional character: Rubin Farr". "Rubin and Ed", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.

  Ray Berwick

  Intelligent

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• I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway.

  Redman

  Friday, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Cosmic Slop

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• I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.

  Brian Setzer

  Running, People, Brain

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• The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

  Terry Goodkind

  Reality, Thinking, Perception

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• Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass.
  You's a naive cat if you still believe that.

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Believe, Rap, Hip Hop

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• These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
  Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
  Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
  Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.

  Talib Kweli

  Real, Rap, Independent

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• In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lions, Kitten, Curious

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.129

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• I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

  Rod McKuen

  Past, Quiet, Chairs

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