Cat Quotes - Page 4

• Cats know not how to pardon.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Forgiveness, Pardon, Knows

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• Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Children, Body

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

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• Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

  Hank Ketcham

  Mean, Animal, Humanity

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• Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

  T. S. Eliot

  Animal, Humanity, Littles

  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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• When the tea is brought at five o'clock
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
  The little black cat with bright green eyes
  Is suddenly purring there.

  Harold Monro

  Eye, Poetry, Tea

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Intelligent, Purring

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.135, Chartwell

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• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Humanity, Kitten

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• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

  George Mikes

  Dog, Animal, People

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• Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

  Jim Davis

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

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• Kittens can happen to anyone.

  Paul Gallico

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  Suzanne Szasz, Paul Gallico (1964). “The silent miaow: a manual for kittens, strays, and homeless cats”

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• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Doors, Practice, Risk

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• Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Attitude, Desert

  Charles Baudelaire, “Les Chats (Cats)”

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Owning A Pet, Irritated

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Personality, Humanity

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

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• Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.

  Lynn-Holly Johnson

  Eye, Bridges, World

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• But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

  William Kunstler

  Dog, Needs, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.

  Lewis Thomas

  Animal, Mind, Mystery

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Curiosity, Satisfaction, Curious

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• The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

  Aesop

  Mark

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• What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

  Doris Lessing

  Lonely, Eye, Night

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• The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Strange, Cryptic

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.17, e-artnow

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• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Money, Politics, Able

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Fun, Mean

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.215, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Water, Body, Restful

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