Cat Quotes - Page 32

• A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Games, Play, Kitten

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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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• The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Water Bottles, Effort

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Wagner

  "Jimi Hendrix, in his own words: 'I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good'" by Jimi Hendrix, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2013.

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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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• Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

  Mike Murdock

  Encouragement, Sleep, Stories

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• I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.

  Michelle Branch

  Mom, Jobs, Couple

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• The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
  Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
  Old Rover in his moss-greened house
  Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
  
  In the dewy fields the cattle lie
  Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
  Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
  Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Lying, July

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Thinking

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• I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

  Ben Whishaw

  Good Life

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

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• As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Angel, Cherubs, Tigers

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

  Marie Leszczynska

  Able, Silent, Good Company

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