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| Poets, Playwrites, Authors, Statesmen, Artists, Scientists, Philosophers and others have all had something to say about cats |
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| Cat Quotes |
| "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." ~Leonardo da Vinci "Cats must have three names--an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name." ~ T.S. Eliot "To err is human To purr feline!"~ Robert Byrne "What greater gift than the love of a cat?" ~ Charles Dickens "Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched."~ Cervantes "She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse." ~ Henry David Thoreau "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 "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." ~ Ernest Hemingway "One cat justs leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway "You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me." ~ T.S. Eliott "What greater gift than the love of a cat?"~ Charles Dickens "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." ~Ernest Hemingway "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat." ~ Lewis Carroll "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat." ~ Lewis Carroll 'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens that, whatever you say to them, they always purr." ~ Lewis Carroll "If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." Mark Twain "A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?" ~ Mark Twain "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." ~ Mark Twain "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." ~ Mark Twain "I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!" ~Tennessee Ernie Ford "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." ~ Edgar Allan Poe "The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind." ~ H.G. Wells "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." ~ Jules Verne "If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat. Robert A. Heinlein "There is no such thing as 'just a cat.." ~Robert A. Heinlein :Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse"~ Robert A. Heinlein "Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." ~ Robert A. Heinlein "How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven." ~ Robert A. Heinlein "Women & cats will do as they please, men & dogs should relax and get used to the idea." ~ Robert A. Heinlein "The fog comes on little cat feet." ~Carl Sandberg "The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." ~ Rudyard Kipling "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat".~ Albert Einstein "A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy; he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days." ~ Albert Einstein "A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." ~Ben Franklin "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." ~Abraham Lincoln "No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." ~Abraham Lincoln "Cats do not need to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailingly ingenious in that respect." ~James Mason "Comets are like cats. They have tails, and they do precisely what they want. "~David Levy "I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul." ~Jean Couteau "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. "~Albert Schweitzer "There are no ordinary cats." ~ Colette "Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette "Cats will always lie soft. " ~Theocrites Cats are mysterious folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.`Sir Walter Scott The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.~ George F. Will "People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life." Faith Resnick "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine "A cat's best friend is his teddy bear." ~Garfield "A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something." ~Andy Rooney "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.". ~Leo Dworken "The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact." ~ P.G.Wodehouse "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 "Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." ~ Desmond Morris "Never try to outstubborn a cat." ~ Lazarus Long "You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. " ~ Sir Harry Swanson "Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner." ~ Stephen Baker "There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone." ~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti "Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body." ~ Erma Bombeck "Don't trust someone that has NO animal hair on em" ~ PCFCherub "A cat is like a potatoe chip, one is never enough. " ~ Puma "The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menaul "Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."- ~Paul Gray "With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" ~ Fernand Mery "Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds." ~Jean Burden "The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. " ~Lynn M. Osband "Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything." ~ Hank Ketchum "There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten." ~ Jules Champfleury "A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan "There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - Anonymous |
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