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"Who can believe that there is no
soul behind those luminous eyes!"
-- Theophile Gautier
"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
"If you are worthy of its
affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."
-- Theophile Gautier
"Cats know how to obtain food
without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties."
-- W.L. George
"Cats are the ultimate narcissists.
You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming.
Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead
fish."
-- James Gorman
"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
"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."
-- Paul Gray
"One must love a cat on its own terms."
-- Paul Gray
"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs
should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"How we behave toward cats here
below determines our status in heaven."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"One cat just leads to another."
-- Ernest Hemingway
"Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice,
hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."
-- Oliver Herford
"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
-- James Herriot
"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
"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
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in
nature has a function."
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
"Cats seem to go on the principle
that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
"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
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be
plenty of kittens."
-- Abraham Lincoln"
"It is with the approach of winter
that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and
delightful opulence."
-- Pierre Loti
"A black cat crossing your path
signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
--- Groucho Marx
"The cat has too much spirit
to have no heart."
-- Ernest Menaul
"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
"God made the cat in order that man
might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
-- Fernand Mery
"A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat"
-- George Mikes
"You can keep a dog but it is the cat who keeps people because cats find
humans useful domestic animals."
-- George Mikes
"As long ago as the second century A.D., the Roman
historian Lucius Coelius recorded that, when he was free from his
studies and more weighty affairs, he was not ashamed to play and sport
himself with his cat."
--- Desmond Morris
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not
amusing herself with me more than I with her."
-- Montaigne
"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
"A cat is a puzzle for which there
is no solution."
-- Hazel Nicholson
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