Cat Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• 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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• I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

  George Benson

  Music, Jazz, Pleasure

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• I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Stars, Jazz

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• Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Writing, Poetry, Trying

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• Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Eye, Animal

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A cat has absolute honesty.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Absolutes

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• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Dance, Innocent, Presentation

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Party, Two

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• Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Laughing

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• You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Kids, Simple

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin, 1997.

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• I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Optimistic, Views

  "At age 79, Hefner keeps things real". "Live and Direct" with Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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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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• Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Race, Class, Justice

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Animal, Teeth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

  Stephen King

  Fathers Day, Mother, Two

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• The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

  Dante Alighieri

  Evil, Fallen, Mice

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

  Ricky Gervais

  Death, Suicide, Fire

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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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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Humble, Animal

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• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Pleasure, Sweetest

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

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• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Swimming

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

  Norbert Wiener

  Witty, Mathematical, Models

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