Cat Quotes - Page 3

• The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pet, Masterpiece, Feline

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• There are no ordinary cats.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Animal, Pet, Ordinary

  "There hangs a tail ..." by Justine Hankins, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2004.

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• In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."

  Lowell Thomas

  Men, Istanbul, Doubt

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• When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happy, Humorous, Thinking

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• Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

  Paul Gray

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

  Champfleury

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”

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• I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

  Mark Twain

  Purring, Purring Cats, Cat Love

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• The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

  George Will

  Funny, Humor, Phrases

  As quoted in "The Cat Who Thought Too Much - An Essay Into Felinity" by Robin D. Gill, Paraverse Press, (p. 153), 2010.

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• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, My Favorite, Desks

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• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Perfect, Worship, Cynic

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.1383, e-artnow

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• I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Meditation, Masters

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.190, New World Library

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• Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

  Gladys Taber

  House

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• Never try to outstubborn a cat.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trying

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Humor, Animal

  Essais bk. 2, ch. 12 (1580)

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• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  Oliver Herford

  Love, Dog, Hate

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

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• She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Mad, Tails

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll (Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper), November 26, 1865.

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• A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

  Agnes Varda

  Cameras, Needs, Computer

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• Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

  Paul Gallico

  Beautiful, Lovely, Doe

  Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Giving, Pleasure

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• Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.

  Kathy Young

  Perfect, Accepting, Feels

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