Cat Quotes - Page 31

• Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

  Nikola Tesla

  Giants, Strokes, Ifs

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• O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

  Fanny Fern

  Girl, Dog, Lap

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.221, Rutgers University Press

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• so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, Tree, Dumb

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• The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Men, Tails

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• The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

  Lewis Carroll

  Long, Teeth, Saws

  Lewis Carroll (1920). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.89

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• He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

  May Sarton

  Desire, Legs, Purring

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• There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

  Kiersten White

  Dog, Smart, Egypt

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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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• The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

  John Ray

  Tails, Higher

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.88

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• Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

  Roger Caras

  Underestimate, Humans, Human Intelligence

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

  P. D. James

  Animal, Merciful

  "Time to Be in Earnest".

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• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Vision, Noses, Given

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Years, Yesterday, Attention

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• He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Home, Men

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• One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Loneliness, House

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.141, U of Minnesota Press

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• Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving, Stranger, Magnus Bane

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• Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drama, Character, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

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• If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

  Pierre Loti

  Writing, Animal, Humanity

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Eye, Animal, Humanity

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics that would eventually produce the CAT scan. The calculations of today's GPS satellites are based on the equations that Einstein put to paper more than a century ago.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Gps, One Day

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• But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Play, Design, Wish

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Powerful, Astrology

  Sri Chinmoy (1973). “Astrology: The Supernatural and the Beyond”, Aum Publications

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• It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

  Charles A. Murray

  Dog, Rain, Poodles

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• My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

  Eric Roberts

  Travel, Fun, Journey

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• It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned pink. The bride later said that this picture made the rainy day totally worth it!

  Julie Roberts

  Dog, Rain, Sky

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