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Cat quotes, sayings and other funny
comments about cats
"The cat is a puzzle for
which there is no solution." --Hazel Nicholson
"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." --Nan Porter
"Every dog has its day, but nights are reserved for cats."
--Unknown
"To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close
his eyes and keep both his ears awake." --Aileen Fisher
"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk." --Sir Walter
Scott
"If a dog jumps up into 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
"Cats are only human, they have their faults." --Kingsley
Amis
"The thing about cats, as you may find, is that no one knows
what they have in mind." --John Ciardi
"Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently,
like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening."
--Alwin Nikolais
"I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love
their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie
and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with
that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare." --Joyce Stranger
"Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less them themselves." --A.S.J. Tessimond
"What sort of philosophers are we who know absolutely nothing
about the origin and destiny of cats?" --Henry David Thoreau
"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which
is more than can be said for human beings." --William Ralph
Inge
"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
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering,
outspoken, honest fellow--but the cat would have the rare grace
of never saying a word too much." --Philip Gilbert Hamerton
"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream." --William
Shakespeare
"The cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike
to him." --Rudyard Kipling
"Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx,
who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have
no end." --Charles Baudelaire
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