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Quotes about Cats

* I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they
become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau

* The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

* Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human
beings. ~Oliver Herford

* Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of
words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of
the holy Circle; thou art indeed...the Great Cat. ~Inscription on
the Royal Tombs at Thebes

* To err is human, to purr is feline. ~Robert Byrne

* They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an
inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" ~Samuel Butler

* I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is
infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine

* Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still
only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden

* An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.
~Carl Van Vechten

* If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter

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

* There are no ordinary cats. ~Colette

* The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. ~George Will

* Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the
slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with
a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ~Mark
Twain

* The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ~Ernest Menaul

* 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. Camuti, DVM

* Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and
they have many other fine qualities as well. ~Missy Dizick

* Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
~George F. Will

* Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a
sled through snow. ~Jeff Valdez

* A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson

* Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to
ask for what you want. ~Joseph Wood Krutch

* There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not
emulate to his advantage. ~Carl Van Vechten

* Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered
from insomnia. ~Joseph Wood Krutch

* It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat. ~Anonymous

* Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor
do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out
their lives fulfilling their expectations. ~Irving Townsend

* Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about
everything, including the people they own. ~John Dingman

* 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... ~Saki

* I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. ~William Shakespeare,
Henry IV

* 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... ~Beverly Nichols

* 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 in a dead fish. ~James
Gorman

* It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a
philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections
thoughtlessly. ~Theophile Gautier

* Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. ~James Herriot

* 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

* The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all
your emotions into. ~Bruce Schimmel

* When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little
tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were
treading the jungle. ~Sarah Orne Jewett

* Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
~Theophile Gautier

* There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
~Wesley Bates

* If a cat spoke, it would say things like, "Hey, I don't see the
problem here." ~Roy Blount, Jr.

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

* The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. ~H. G. Frommer

* If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a
cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ~Doris Lessing

* The Dog gives himself the Airs of a Cat. ~Sir Richard Steele

* Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world -
  the clock and the cat. ~Emile Auguste Chartier

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