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Cats
There are no ordinary cats. — Colette
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. — Leonardo da Vinci
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. — Agnes Reppllier
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
No tame animal has loss less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. — William Conway, Archbishop of Armagh
The cat, like the genius, draws into itself as into a shell except in the atmosphere of congeniality, and this is the secret of its remarkable and elusive personality. — Ida M. Mellen
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. — Mark Twain
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
"Meow" is like "Aloha" — it can mean anything. — Hank Ketchum
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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 Davis Thoreau
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin. — Fred Schwab
Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively. — Roni Schotter
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. — Carl Van Vechten
Cats everywhere asleep on the shelves like motorized bookends. — Audrey Thomas
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
Way deep down we are motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. — Jim Davis
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. — John Weitz
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person. — Mugsy Peabody
A dog is prose, a cat poetry. — source unknown
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. — Doris Lessing
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
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. — English proverb
The tail, of course, must come forward until it reaches the front paws. Only an inexperienced kitten would let it dangle. — Lloyd Alexander
Although cat games have their rules and ritual, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. — Sidney Denham
The cat is never vulgar. — Carl Van Vechten
If he had asked to have the door opened, and was eager to go out, he always went deliberately; I can see him now, standing on the sill, looking about at the sky as if he was thinking whether it were worth while to take an umbrella. — Margaret Benson
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. — Margaret Benson
Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? — Lilian Jackson Braun
Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone. — Dr. Louis J. Camuti
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. — Jean Cocteau
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. — Christopher Smart
Cats love one so much— more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep to themselves. — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. — Dave Platt
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. — source unknown
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. — Anonymous
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. — Jeff Valdez
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry Berkeley
One cat just leads to another. — Ernest Hemingway
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Mary Bly
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. — Ernest Menaul
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. — source unknown
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Colette
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. — Missy Dizick
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit. — source unknown
The softness of a kitten's feet, like raspberries held in the hand. — Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Does the Cheshire cat drink evaporated milk? — source unknown
Rule 46 of the Oxford Union Society in London reads, "Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one Pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat." — source unknown
may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.
Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems,
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.
Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die --
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.
Only the curious
have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.
Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.
Curiosity © Alastair Reed