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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.

-- Jean Cocteau
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... I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

-- Colette
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What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys?

-- Douglas Coupland
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In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

-- English Proverb
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.

-- John Frazee
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Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long
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Love to eat them mousies
Mousie's what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

-- B. Kliban
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The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT.
or
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.

-- Ogden Nash
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

-- Agnes Repplier
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

-- Albert Schweitzer
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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 (1861 - 1947)
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

-- Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
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Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

-- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

-- Jeff Valdez
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"

Death thought about it.

"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." 

-- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

-- Garrison Keillor
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A cat may look at a king.

-- English Proverb
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?
or
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend
      Condescend
Here to sit by me.

-- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.

-- Matthew Arnold
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

-- Mark Twain
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

-- Leonardo da Vinci
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What greater gift than the love of a cat?

-- Charles Dickens
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Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

-- Paul Corey
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All cats are possessed of a proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to treat him as an inferior being.

-- Michael Joseph
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To gain the friendship of a cat is a difficult thing. The cat is philosophical, metholodical, quiet animal, tenacious of it's own habits, fond of order and cleanliness, and it does not lightly confer its friendship. If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave. He keeps his free will, though he loves, and he will not do for you what he thinks is unreasonable. But if he once gives himself to you it is with absolute confidence and affection

-- Theophile Gautier
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Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

-- Charles Baudelaire
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

-- Pam Brown
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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.

-- Roger Caras
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Cats don't like change without their consent.

-- Roger Caras
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

-- Lewis Carroll
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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

-- Raymond Chandler
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.

-- Chaucer
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

-- Robertson Davies
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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

-- Arnold Edinborough
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.

-- Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.

-- Charles A. Lindbergh, (Explaining why his kitten, Patsy, didn't accompany him on his legendary transatlantic flight.)
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there - in sunny weather - stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. 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 title?

-- Mark Twain
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I urged that kings were dangerous. He said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive, finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house...The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.

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

-- Mark Twain
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By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

-- Mark Twain
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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

-- Mark Twain
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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. They realize... that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

-- Cleveland Amory
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To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

-- Stephen Baker
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

-- Charles Baudelaire
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

-- William Bennett
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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

-- Alvah Bessie
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

-- Anthony Bourdain
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

-- Pam Brown
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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. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

-- William S. Burroughs
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

-- William S. Burroughs
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

-- William J. Clinton
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

-- Marie Corelli
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But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

-- James Cromwell
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

-- Will Cuppy
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

-- Martin Delany
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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

-- Theophile Gautier
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The cat is a dilettante in fur.

-- Theophile Gautier
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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
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I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

-- Gina Gershon
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

-- Robert Graves
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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

-- Brian Greene
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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

-- Lewis Grizzard
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

-- Robert A. Heinlein
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

-- Oliver Herford
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

-- Dean Inge
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A dog is like a liberal, he wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't really need to know that everybody loves him.

-- William Kunstler
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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

-- Doug Larson
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

-- Walter de La Mare
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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

-- Groucho Marx
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

-- Michel de Montaigne
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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

-- Andre Norton
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When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

-- Lester B. Pearson
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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

-- William Lyon Phelps
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

-- Edgar Allan Poe
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

-- Jules Renard
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

-- Helen Rowland
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My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

-- Robert A. M. Stern
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A cat is never vulgar.

-- Carl Van Vechten
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only -- surprised that all do not.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

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

-- Carl Van Vechten
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

-- Jules Verne
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

-- Christopher Walken
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

-- Henry David Thoreau
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

-- Mason Cooley
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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
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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
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

-- Sigmund Freud
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

-- W. L. George
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Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

-- James Herriot
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

-- James Herriot
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

-- Nafisa Joseph
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

-- Kenny Loggins
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Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

-- Rod McKuen
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Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

-- Desmond Morris
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Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

-- Andre Norton
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

-- Marge Piercy
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

-- Paula Poundstone
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

-- Terry Pratchett
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We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

-- Ron Reagan
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

-- Agnes Repplier
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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

-- Hippolyte Taine
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Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.

-- Anonymous
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The cat is above all things, a dramatist.

-- Margaret Benson
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People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

-- Anonymous
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

-- Dan Greenburg
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Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

-- Paul Gray
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The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

-- Ernest Menaul
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There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

-- Louis Camuti
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Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.

-- Helen Powers
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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.

-- Geoffrey Household
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By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.

-- Colette
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When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'.

-- Susan McDonough
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Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

-- Eugene O'Neill
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Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?

-- Karen Brademeyer
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Beware of people who dislike cats.

-- Irish Proverb
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A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude.

-- Jules Champfleury
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

-- Ernest Hemingway
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Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

-- Winifred Carriere
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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 Camuti
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The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

-- Franois R. Chateaubriand
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A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

-- Judith Merkle Riley
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

-- Bette Midler
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just cant come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you cant fool a cat. They seem to know whos not right, if you know what I mean.

-- Dewitt Bodeen & Jacques Tourneur
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Any owner of cats will know of what I speak. Cats come at dawn to sit on your bed. They may not nip your nose or inhale your breath or make a sound. They simply sit there and stare at you until you open one eyelid and spy them there about to drop dead for need of feeding. So it is with ideas. They come silently in the hour of trying to wake up and remember my name. The notions and fancies sit on the edge of my wits, whisper in my ears and then, if I dont rouse, give more than cats give: a good knock in the head, which gets me out and down to my typewriter before the ideas flee or die or both. In any event, I make the ideas come to me. I do not go to them. I provoke their patience by pretending disregard. This infuriates the latent creature until it is almost raving to be born and once born, nourished.

-- Ray Bradbury
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I sleep with two cats and the touch of their fur brushing against my naked skin is among the most beautiful sensations I can think of. They calm me, these animals who could be wild but choose not to be, who go outside to kill and lounge around, then come home every day for the food I provide and for my touch. They bridge me over to that animal country from which I came, a place in which the body poses no questions, only needs.

-- Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cats wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation.

-- Philippe Diol
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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, and meantime it is only puss and her tail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only two animals have entered the human household otherwise than as prisoners and become domesticated by other means than those of enforced servitude: the dog and the cat. Two things they have in common, namely, that both belong to the order of carnivores and both serve man in their capacity of hunters. In all other charac teristics, above all in the manner of their association with man, they are as different as the night from the day. There is no domestic animal which has so radically altered its whole way of living, indeed its whole sphere of interests, that has become domestic in so true a sense as the dog: and there is no animal that, in the course of its century-old association with man, has altered so little as the cat. There is some truth in the assertion that the cat, with the exception of a few luxury breeds, such as Angora, Persians, and Siamese, is no domestic animal but a completely wild being. Maintaining its full independence it has taken up its abode in the houses and outhouses of man, for the simple reason that there are more mice there than elsewhere.

-- Konrad Lorenz
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Persian pussy from over the sea
Demure and lazy and smug and fat
None of your ribbons and bells for me
Ours is the zest of the alley cat.

-- Don Marquis
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

-- Camille Paglia
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Cats exercise ... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

-- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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Perhaps God made cats so that man might have the pleasure of fondling the tiger...

-- Robertson Davies
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Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one.

-- Thomas Fuller
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It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungles lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language; but he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten.

-- H.P. Lovecraft
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The kitten has a luxurious, Bohemian, unpuritanical nature. It eats six meals a day, plays furiously with a toy mouse and a piece of rope, and suddenly falls into a deep sleep whenever the fit takes it. It never feels the necessity to do anything to justify its existence; it does not want to be a Good Citizen; it has never heard of Service. It knows that it is beautiful and delightful, and it considers that a sufficient contribution to the general good. And in return for its beauty and charm it expects fish, meat, and vegetables, a comfortable bed, a chair by the grate fire, and endless petting.

-- Robertson Davies
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A thing of beauty, strength, and grace lies behind that whiskered face,

-- Anonymous
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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature.

-- Eric S. Raymond
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The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

-- Konrad Lorenz
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You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you.

-- Helen Powers
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Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

-- A. S. J. Tessimond
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A cat knows exactly what you are, and treats you accordingly.

-- Anonymous
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Everyone knows cats are on a higher level of existence. These silly humans are just too big-headed to admit their inferiority. Just think what a nicer world this would be if it were controlled by cats.

You wouldn't see cats having waste disposal problems. They're neat.

They don't have sexual hangups. A cat gets horny, it does something about it.

They keep reasonable hours. You never see a cat up before noon.
They know how to relax. Ever heard of a cat with an ulcer?
What are the chances of a cat starting a nuclear war? Pretty neglible. It's not that they can't, they just know that there are much better things to do with one's time. Like lie in the sun and sleep. Or go exploring the world. 

-- Anonymous
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Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

-- John Dingman
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Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

-- Theophile Gautier
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It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

-- Pierre Loti
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A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world.

-- Irish Legend
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Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.

-- Anonymous
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Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?

-- Irish Saying
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.

-- Indian Saying
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.

-- Colonial proverb
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Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat.

-- Chinese Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.

-- English Proverb
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Happy is the home with at least one cat.

-- Italian Proverb
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Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room.

-- French Proverb
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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
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The cat is nature's Beauty.

-- French Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

-- French Proverb
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Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.

-- Dutch Proverb
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With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?

-- Fernand Mery
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Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

-- John Dobbin
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names...

-- T.S. Eliot
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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
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Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.

-- Paul Gray
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One must love a cat on its own terms.

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

-- Mary Bly
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There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

-- Dan Greenberg
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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
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Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

-- George F. Will
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A meow massages the heart.

-- Stuart McMillan
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There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

--  Wesley Bates
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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

-- Jean Burden
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The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

-- Lynn M. Osband
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Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.

-- James Mason
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How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

-- Robert A. Heinlein
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Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

-- Eleanor Clark
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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
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You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.

-- Sir Harry Swanson
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There are no ordinary cats.

-- Colette
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In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

-- Warren Eckstein
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There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

-- Tay Hohoff
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One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do.

-- Barbara Webster
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

-- Jules Reynard
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Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.

-- Stephen Baker
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Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

-- Andrew Lang
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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...

-- Saki (H. H. Munro)
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We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

-- St. George Mivart
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Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.

-- Louis F. Camuti, DVM
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The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

-- George F. Will
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Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

-- Louis Wain
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There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

-- Jules Champfleury
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If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.

-- Winifred Carriere
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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
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

-- Sir Walter Scott
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Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

-- Roger Caras
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The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

-- Carl Van Vechten
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Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

-- John Weitz
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People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.

-- Faith Resnick
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There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.

-- Anonymous
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Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated... Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.

-- Lesley Anne Ivory
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I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue.

Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.

She looks up and gives me her full gaze.

Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.

-- Dilys Laing
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We have a theory that cats are planning to take over the world, just try to look them straight in the eye...yup, they're hiding something

-- Dog Fancy
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When you are looking, a cat acts like a princess, but the minute they think you are not looking, a cat acts like a fool.

-- KC Buffington
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Civilization is defined by the presence of cats.

-- Anonymous
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The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

-- Eric Gurney
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The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

-- H.G. Frommer
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It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

-- Eleanor Farjeon
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If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself.

-- Anonymous
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Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor.

-- Walter Chandoha
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Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.

-- Lynn Hollyn
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It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

-- Robley Wilson, Jr.
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Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

-- Pam Brown
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Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration -- and get between you and it.

-- Arthur Bridges
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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.

-- Henry David Thoreau
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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. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company.

-- Lloyd Alexander
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.

-- Rudyard Kipling
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To err is human, to purr is feline.

-- Robert Byrne
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If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.

-- Anonymous
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

-- Colette
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Every life should have nine cats.

-- Anonymous
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Dogs eat. Cats dine.

-- Ann Taylor
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A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.

-- Bill Adler
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Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?

-- Robert Stearns
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A cat can purr its way out of anything.

-- Donna McCrohan
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My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.

-- Colette
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It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

-- Arthur Symons
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A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.

-- Hazel Nicholson
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A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.

-- Mugsy Peabody
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The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle.

-- Roseanne Ambrose Brown
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Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

-- Marion Garretty
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Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

-- Paul Gallico
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Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

-- Charlotte Gray
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If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.

-- Patricia Hitchcock
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French novelist Colette was a firm cat-lover. When she was in the U.S. she saw a cat sitting in the street. She went over to talk to it and the two of them mewed at each other for a friendly minute. Colette turned to her companion and exclaimed, "Enfin! Quelqu'un qui parle francais." (At last! Someone who speaks French!).

-- Anonymous
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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.

-- Arthur Bridges
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To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique.

-- Jenny de Vries
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There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.

-- Allen and Ivy Dodd
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Places to look: behind the books in the bookshelf, any cupboard with a gap too small for any cat to squeeze through, the top of anything sheer, under anything too low for a cat to squash under and inside the piano.

-- Roseanne Ambrose-Brown
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Cats like doors left open--in case they change their minds.

-- Rosemary Nisbet
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Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat locked-out comes at the door.

-- Pam Brown
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The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

-- Pam Brown
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A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.

-- Jenny de Vries
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All cats like being the focus of attention.

-- Peter Gray
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

-- Charlotte Gray
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

-- Mark Twain
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When addressed, a gentleman cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

-- Mary Sarton
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When anyone mistreats it, the cat wants nothing more to do with that person and will remember him or her for a long time. It doesn't believe in the doctrine of turning the other cheek and won't pretend that it does.

-- Lawrence N. Johnson
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I purr, therefore I am.

-- Anonymous
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Cats are living adornments.

-- Edwin Lent
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What greater gift than the love of a cat?

-- Charles Dickens
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People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.

-- Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.
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A cat doesn't know what it wants and wants more of it.

-- Richard Hexem
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For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

-- Sir Compton Mackenzie
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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

-- Charles Dudley Warner
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People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.

-- Susan Easterly
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When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'.

-- Susan McDonough, D.M.V.
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Cats come and go without ever leaving.

-- Martha Curtis
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The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

-- E. W. Howe
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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.

-- Saki
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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.

-- Pierre Loti
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A cat is nobody's fool.

-- Heywood Brown
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When I raise a cat from kittenhood, it learns to read me so well that it can con me and predict what I'm going to do. A young adult cat doesn't know what to expect from me and I don't know what to expect from it, so we immediately have each other's attention.

-- Karl Lewis Miller
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Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place.

-- Lynn Hollyn
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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.

-- Irving Townsend
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I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

-- Colette
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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
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If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

-- Jules Champfleury
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Many cats simply pounce to their own drummers.

-- Karen Duprey
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The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.

-- Lawrence N. Johnson
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Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.

-- Louise A. Belcher
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

-- Elizabeth Peters
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Cats look beyond appearances -- beyond species entirely, it seems -- to peer into the heart.

-- Barbara L. Diamond
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He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone - this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls 'My cat.

-- Margaret Benson
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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

-- Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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One cat just leads to another.

-- Ernest Hemingway
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A cat's behavior is a direct reflection of his feelings.

-- Carole Wilbourn
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My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes.

-- Anonymous
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To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality.

-- Lilian Jackson Braun
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In my next life, I'd like to come back as a cat.

-- Patti J. Moran
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A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it.

-- Frank Perkins
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The purr from cat to man says, 'You bring me happiness; I am at peace with you.

-- Barbara L. Diamond
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More than likely it was the cat who first coined and put into practice the sage advice: 'If you would have a thing done well, you must do it yourself.'

-- Lawrence N. Johnson
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Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed?

-- Winifred Carriere
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He has become a much better cat than I have a person. With his gentle urgings, he made me realize that life doesn't end just because one has a few obstacles to overcome.

-- Mary F. Graf
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In reality, cats are probably better off remaining indoors and sending out their humans to deal with the outside world.

-- Dr. Phyllis Sherman Raschke
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The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.

-- Susan Easterly
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It's really the cat's house -- we just pay the mortgage.

-- Anonymous
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A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat.

-- Linda W. Lewis
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Cats are creatures that express a multitude of moods and attitudes.

--  Karen Brademeyer
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The constant challenge to decipher feline behavior is perhaps one of the most fascinating qualities of owning a cat.

-- Carole Wilbourn
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At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their own idea.

-- Lilian Jackson Braun
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The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.

-- Patricia Dale-Green
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm.

-- Charles Horton Cooley
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Each one of our cats is a distinct, four-footed little person with an individual personality.

-- Ira B. Rubin
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A cat will assume the shape of its container.

-- Anonymous
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A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

-- Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.
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Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner...

-- Barbara L. Diamond
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In performing a variety of intellectually demanding tasks, cats usually emerge as clear winners (over dogs).

-- Dr. David Greene
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Cats may, indeed, be the thinking man's pet -- because living with cats certainly keeps you on your toes!

-- Barbara L. Diamond
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When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.

-- Mike Deupree
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How nice it is to think that feline dreams, like our own, are painted with creative brush strokes from time to time. Perhaps my cats and I even share the same dream: a world where all kittens are wanted and loved, and where every cat has a safe, warm place to sleep...and to dream.

-- Barbara L. Diamond
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No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me.

-- Anonymous
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Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

-- Jeff Valdez
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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
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy.

-- Carl Van Vechten
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When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

-- Leonore Fleisher
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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.

-- Barbara Holland
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The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

-- Robertson Davies
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Who hath a better friend than a cat?

-- William Hardwin
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Which is more beautiful -- feline movement or feline stillness?

-- Elizabeth Hamilton
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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.

-- Agnes Repplier
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My little grandson is a darling, but he can never take the place of my cats.

-- Anonymous Grandmother
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

-- Leigh Hunt
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All cats love a cushioned couch.

-- Theocritus
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Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

-- W B Yeats
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If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart.

-- Alan Devoe
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

-- Eric Gurney
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

-- H. P. Lovecraft
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The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambole is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

-- Lady Sydney Morgan
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A Cat, with its phosporescent eyes that shine like lanterns and sparks flashing from its back, moves fearlessly through the darkness, where it meets wandfering ghosts, witches, alchemists, necromancers, grave-robbers, lovers, thieves, murderers, grey-cloaked patrols, and all the obscene larvae that only emerge at night.

-- Theophile Gautier
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Nothing is so difficult as to paint the cat's face, which as Moncrif justly observes bears a character of "finesse and hilarity." The lines are so delicate, the eyes so strange, the movements subject to such sudden impulses, that one should be feline oneself to portray such a subject.

-- Jules Husson Champfleury
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What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

-- Gail Hamilton
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"Oh. Auntie. isn't he a beauty! And is he a gentleman or a lady?"
"Neither, my dear! I had him fixed. It saves him from so many undesirable associations."

-- D. H. Lawrence
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The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to earn a living in the city.

-- Carl Van Vechten
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A kitten is the delight of the household; all day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

-- Champfleury
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The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats.

-- Anonymous
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If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.

-- Joan Asper McIntosh
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For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

-- Christopher Smart
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Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

-- Lillian Jackson Braun
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There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind,
more delightful than grown cats at play.
They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle
and designing, and yet so richly comical.

-- Monica Edwards
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Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.

-- Helen M. Winslow
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No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more if its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

-- William Conway
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If you want to write, keep cats.

-- Aldous Huxley
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Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

-- Theophile Gautier
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I have seen
How the cat trembles
while sleeping
The night runs over him
like dark water

-- Pablo Neruda
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They come to sit on the table by the writer, keeping his thoughts company, and gazing at him with intelligent tenderness and magical penetration.  It seems as though cats divine the thought that is passing from the brain to the pen, and that as they strech out a paw, they are trying to seize it on its way.

-- Theophile Gautier
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He loved books and when he found one open on the table he would lie down on it, turn over the edges of the leaves with his paw, and after a while, fall asleep, for all the world as if he had been reading a fashionable novel.

-- Theophile Gautier
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Cats only assume their strangest, most intriguing and most beautiful postures when it is impossible to photograph them. Cat calendars always disappoint for they only show the public range of cat positions.

-- J. R. Coulson
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A cat is a Regency gentleman - elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthousiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight, and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possess a range of invective that would make a navvy blanch.

-- Pam Brown
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We tie bright ribbons around their necks, and occasionaly little tinkling bells, and we affect to think that they are as sweet and vapid as the coy name "kitty" by which we call them would imply. It is a curious illusion. For, purring beside our fireplaces and pattering along our back fences, we have got a wild beast as uncowed and uncorrupted as any under heaven.

-- Alan Devoe
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Cats do not wear their hearts on their sleeves, which is not to say that they do not miss you when you are away. However, they feel you have behaved very badly and may not be very civil when you return. After you have apologized, normal relations can be resumed.

-- Suzanne Millen
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A cat who has taken umbrage is a terrible sight to see.

-- Rosemary Nisbet
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He makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. He remains for whole evenings on your knee, uttering his contented purr, happy to be with you, and forsaking the company of animals of his own species.

-- Theophile Gautier
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Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

-- Suzanne Millen
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Some of the best five minutes of my life have been spent sitting on garden walls sharing bags of popcorn with newly-made feline acquaintaces.

-- Pam Brown
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One cat is fine. She will probably sleep over the hot water bottle, or in the crook of your knees or on your lap or folded in your arms, though there are eccentrics who prefer to wedge themselves under the chin, curl around the head, squat on the hip or ribcage or shoulders or simply insist on lying nose to nose, breathing kipper.

-- Rosemary Nisbet
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

--  George Mikes
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A cat does not want all the world to love her - only those she has chosen to love.

-- Helen Thomson
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When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

-- Helen Thomson
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Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

-- Mike Royko
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With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

-- Bram Cohen
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You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.

-- Jane Pauley
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The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

-- Marina Oswald
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

-- Yannick Noah
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cat with gloves catches no mice.

-- Navjot Singh Sidhu
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

-- W. C. Fields
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

-- Barry White
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

-- Doris Lessing
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

-- Mark Twain
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

-- Antonio Banderas
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

-- Mark Twain
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

-- Deng Xiaoping
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

-- Virginia Woolf
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

-- Will Rogers
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.

-- P. J. O'Rourke
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I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

-- Juliette Lewis
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I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

-- Jennifer Love Hewitt
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I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

-- Gina Gershon
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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

-- Joanna Lumley
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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

-- Harry Lorayne
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Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

-- Mario Andretti
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

-- James Thurber
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