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"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
-English Proverb
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One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
-Douglas Adams
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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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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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A lion, for instance, which in nature is not a very distinctive object, was portrayed, for greater distinction, with its leonine attributes, its fierce expression, frightful claws, lithe and ,lissom body all vastly exaggerated, so that indeed it looked more like a lion than did ever any lion of nature. In this wise, by turning away from true representation and adopting a character all its own, was the 'heraldic lion' born, and with it came also the manner of depictin all the other beasts and forms and patterns which is so peculiarly heraldic.
-Sir George Bellew
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If a cat spoke, it would say things like "Hey, I don't see the problem here."
-Roy Blount, Jr.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
-Pam Brown
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Cats don't like change without their consent.
-Roger Caras
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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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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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I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.
-Jean Cocteau
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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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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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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, Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)
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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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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
-Garrison Keillor
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Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
-Ann Landers
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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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We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
-H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, In a letter to James F. Morton, December, 1926
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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?
-Michel de Montaigne
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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?
http://www.twainquotes.com/Cats.html
-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
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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.
http://www.twainquotes.com
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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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, Notebook (1884 entry), 1935, edited by Albert Begelow Paine
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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going 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!
http://www.twainquotes.com/Cats.html
-Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
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