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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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Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
-Mary Bly
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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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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
-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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The appearance of a cat is not controlled by the color of it's skin but by the content of its hairacter.
-Brian Michael Cote
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
-Edward Dahlberg
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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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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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Books about Cats
