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Cats are designated friends.
?Norman Corwin
Cat: A pygmy lion who
loves mice, hates dogs, and
patronizes human beings.
?Oliver Herford
A man who carries a cat by the tail
is getting experience that will
always be helpful. He isn't
likely to grow dim or doubtful.
Chances are, he isn't likely to carry
the cat that way again, either.
But if he wants to, I say let him!
?Mark Twain
Curiosity killed the cat, but
for awhile I was a suspect.
?Stephen Wright
As every cat owner knows,
nobody owns a cat.
?Ellen Perry Berkeley
If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
?Nan Porter
Cats seem to go on the principle
that it never does any harm
to ask for what they want.
?Joseph Wood Krutch
Purring would seem to be, in her
case, an automatic safety-valve device for
dealing with happiness overflow.
?Monica Edwards
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
?George Will
There are two means of refuge from
the misery of life -- music and cats.
?Albert Schweitzer
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
?Ernest Menaul
Cats know how to obtain
food without labor, shelter
without confinement, and
love without penalties.
?W.L. George
When all candles be out,
all cats be gray.
?John Heywood
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat
will be your friend but never your slave.
?Theophile Gautier
Cats are absolute individuals, with
their own ideas about everything,
including the people they own.
?John Dingman
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 sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any
chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge,
In the middle, On the edge.
?Eleanor Farjeon
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
A cat's got her own opinion of human
beings. She don't say much, but you
can tell enough to make you anxious
not to hear the whole of it.
?Jerome K. Jerome
Do our cats name us? My former
husband swore that Humphrey
and Dolly and Bean Blossom
called me The Big Hamburger.
?Eleanora Walker
What sort of philosophers are we,
who know absolutely nothing about the
origin and destiny of cats?
?Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
?P.G. Wodehouse
Who can believe that there is no
soul behind those luminous eyes!
?Theophile Gautier
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
It is with the approach of winter that cats...
wear their richest fur and assume an air
of sumptuous and delightful opulence.
?Pierre Loti
Are cats lazy? Well, more power to
them if they are. Which one of us
has not entertained the dream of doing
just as he likes, when and how he likes,
and as much as he likes?
?Fernand Mery
If a dog jumps in 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
?Alfred North Whitehead
In ancient times cats were worshipped as
gods, they have never forgotten this.
?Unknown
If toast always lands butter-side down,
and cats always land on their feet,
what happens if you strap toast
on the back of a cat and drop it?
?Steven Wright
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