Quotes on cats
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.
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Charlotte Gray Quotes
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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Rosanne Amberson Quotes
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.
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Hank Ketchum Quotes
He swings from the chandelier, he paws my peanut butter, and he knocks over my drink in the most unfortunate places in the house - but I still love him like crazy. It's like a hairball in my heart.
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Audra Foveo-Alba Quotes
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
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Roger Caras Quotes
Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.
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Lillian Jackson Braun Quotes
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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Terry Pratchett Quotes
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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Jules Reynard Quotes
Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.
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Helen M. Winslow Quotes
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
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Martin Buxbaum Quotes
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
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Louis J. Camuti Quotes
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
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Paula Poundstone Quotes
Who hath a better friend than a cat?
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William Hardwin Quotes
Dogs eat. Cats dine.
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Ann Taylor Quotes
Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.
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Lillian Johnson Quotes
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods.
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P.G. Wodehouse Quotes
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular - with some justification, unfortunately - consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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Lloyd Alexander Quotes
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.
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Stephen Baker Quotes
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
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J.A. McIntosh Quotes
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
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Stephen Baker Quotes
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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Barbara Holland Quotes
A meow massages the heart.
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Stuart McMillan Quotes
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it.
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Arthur Bridges Quotes
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
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James Gorman Quotes
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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Italo Calvino Quotes
The cat is above all things, a dramatist.
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Margaret Benson Quotes
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.
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Pierre Loti Quotes
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Jules Verne Quotes
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
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George Mikes Quotes
The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
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Proverb Quotes
Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
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Irish Saying Quotes
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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Lloyd Alexander Quotes
A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
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Arthur Bridges Quotes
Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.
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Eric Gurney Quotes
When your kitty purrs to you, doesn't it break your heart that you can't purr back?
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Candea Core-Starke Quotes
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
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John Weitz Quotes
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
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Proverb Quotes
Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.
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Proverb Quotes
Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Proverb Quotes
A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
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Judith Merkle Riley Quotes
Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
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Irving Townsend Quotes
Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
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Stephen Baker Quotes
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
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Monica Edwards Quotes
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
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Jules Champfleury Quotes
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.
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Agnes Repplier Quotes
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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Hippolyte Taine Quotes
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.
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Stephen Baker Quotes
To err is human, to purr is feline.
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Robert Byrne Quotes
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Robertson Davies Quotes
Kittens can happen to anyone.
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Paul Gallico Quotes
Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there's a bowl of milk in it for them.
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Robin Williams Quotes
Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.
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F.A. Paradis de Moncrif Quotes
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
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Doug Larson Quotes
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
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Jeff Valdez Quotes
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.
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Paul Corey Quotes
A beating heart and an angel's soul, covered in fur.
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Lexie Saige Quotes
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
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Mark Twain Quotes
It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
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Cynthia E. Varnado Quotes
When a cat speaks, it's because it has something to say, unlike humans who are the great refuse containers of speech.
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V.L. Allineare Quotes
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
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Robert A. Stern Quotes
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.
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Lawrence N. Johnson Quotes
One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.
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Helen Thomson Quotes
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
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Dereke Bruce Quotes
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
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E.W. Howe Quotes
If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro.
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Bruce Fogle Quotes
The cat was created when the lion sneezed.
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Arabian Proverb Quotes
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
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Roy Blount Quotes
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds.
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K.C. Buffington Quotes
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
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Leo Dworken Quotes
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
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Jane Pauley Quotes
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
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Arab Proverb Quotes
If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.
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Barbara L. Diamond Quotes
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
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Charlotte Gray Quotes
People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.
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Deborah A. Edwards Quotes
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
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Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
Cat (kat') n. Dog with an attitude problem.
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Unknown Author Quotes
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.
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Michael Nelson Quotes
Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
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Wesley Bates Quotes
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
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Mary Bly Quotes
Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
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Sidney Denham Quotes
Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
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Barbara L. Diamond Quotes
The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind.
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Alexis F. Hope Quotes
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
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Compton MacKenzie Quotes
The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat.
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Michael McGarel Quotes
Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
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Beverly Nichols Quotes
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
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Andre Norton Quotes
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Agnes Repplier Quotes
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
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Carl van Vechten Quotes
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
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Carl van Vechten Quotes
You own a dog but you feed a cat.
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Jenny de Vries Quotes
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
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Joyce Stranger Quotes