Feline Quotes - Page 2

• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

  Jane Pauley

  Sleep, Cat, Animal

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• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Earth

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

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• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

  Jeff Valdez

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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

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• A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Perfect, Littles

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  The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Doe

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Husband, Cat, Missing

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• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Doe, Care

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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• I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

  Bill Dana

  Cat, Animal, Two

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• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

  Charlotte Gray

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  Pam Brown

  Inspirational, Home, Cat

  Pam Brown (1997). “Kittens!”, Helen Exley Gift Books

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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, Cat, Animal

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• He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• While the cat's away, the mice will play.

  James Arthur Ray

  Cat, Play, Humanity

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

  Louis J. Horvitz

  Running, Cat, People

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• The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Mean, Cat, Animal

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Novelists

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

  Marge Piercy

  Sleep, Cat, People

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• Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

  Desmond Morris

  Dog, Cat, Artist

  Desmond Morris (1987). “Cat Watching”, Crown Pub

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