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“Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!”

Light Steps Bird Cat Silent Creeps

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.”

Men Growth Animal Dog Cat Horse Supposed To Be

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely 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!”

Ifs Men Way Want Grows Chance Cat Helpful Carrie Tails Chances Are Doubtful

Author:Mark Twain

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“Scalded cats fear even cold water.”

Water Cold Anxiety Cat Cold Water Cold Heart

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.”

Play Moments Form Enjoy Water Prayer Cat Sight Glasses Caught Sunlight Chill Frost Twigs

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.”

Teaching Cat Rosebuds

Author:Irving Townsend

“Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!”

Knows Fall Cat Do You Know Corsets

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.”

Should Animal Numbers Dog Cat Abuse Agree Priorities Chickens Stopping

Author:Pamela Anderson

“There are cats and cats.”

Author:Denis Diderot

“For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.”

Writing Book Seems Growing Written Involved Cat Kitten Wool

Author:Rumer Godden

“Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.”

Ifs Feels Kind Used Spirit Song Sound Sides Animal Crazy Dog Bird Cat Legs Woods Familiar Pet Toenails

Author:Sylvia Browne

“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.”

Ifs Way Problem Would Be House Animal Company Dog Cat Treated Welfare Illegal Farms Factories Slaughter Animal Welfare Impunity

Author:Bruce Friedrich

“The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.”

House Animal Comfort Ordinary Cat Extras Gregarious

Author:Francis Galton

“To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.”

Cat Aesthetic Purring Cats Cat Love

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.”

Seems Perfect Worship Cat Symbols Civilized Superiority Cynic

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!”

Years Would Be Kids Fun Dog Cat Following Pet Thanksgiving Turkeys Indiana Thanksgiving Day Ahead Of Time Thanksgiving Greetings Good Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving

Author:David Letterman

“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”

Cat Curiosity Satisfaction Curious Curiosity Killed The Cat

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.”

Wisdom Wise Feet Cat Fishes Wet

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.”

Cat Fats Pet Hunts

Book:Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine Artist

Source: Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine Artist

“You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.”

Remember Justice Pleasure Huge Mouths Ideals Cat Sight Peculiar Going Out Rats

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”

Animal Deserve Garden Cat Agreement

Book:Garden open tomorrow

Source: Garden open tomorrow

“There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.”

Kind Two House Friendship Dog Cat Gentleman Fidelity

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.”

Dog Cat Gentleman Peasants

Book:Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction

Source: Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction

“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.”

May Made Certain Reading Bits Poet Cat Tongue Bags Suspicion Daft

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.”

Might Cat Dumb Sat Bland Inscrutable

Author:Matthew Arnold

“On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.”

Expression Cat Charm Riding Cliffs

Author:Bob Dylan

“In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.”

Ifs Hard Enough Bigs Strong Dog Crime Humorous Cat England Caught Stealing Bread Forty Sheep Receiving Twelve Hung Rabbits Strong Enough Lashes Handy Olden Days

Author:Mike Harding

“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.”

Ifs Thinking World Long Beautiful Interesting Principles Cat Remains Corners Cosmos Delusion Benevolence Pious Unexplored

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.”

Sleep Protect Cat Breaths Stealing Protect You Gnome

Author:John Dobbin

“Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.”

Thinking Want Made Shows Feelings Fans Drink Moon Cat Tongue Seconds Tied Acid Ripped Less Is More Itchy

Author:Matt Groening

“You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.”

Saws Crazy Wall Cat Literal

Author:Arnold Hano

“We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.”

Grew Eating Cat Fishes Ships

Author:Brendan

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

Ifs Humans Speak Human Beings Boys Violence Dog Politician Stones Cat Sells Add Charity Contempt Oppressed Organize Oppressors Good Politicians

Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Real Running Faces House Common Streets Cat Your Face Crossings Fur

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.”

Children Doe Cat Mirrors

Author:Anais Nin

“The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.”

People Humans May Reason Hate Numbers Race Moral Intellectual Cat Human Race Divided Considering

Book:The Fireside Sphinx

Source: The Fireside Sphinx

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”

People Hard Quality Cat Funny Cat Cat Dog Cat Lady

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.”

Poor Devil Cat Tigers

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.”

Should Cat Milk Boots Coal Umbrella Handy Brandy

Book:Fly Leaves

Source: Fly Leaves

“Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.”

Mean Cat Kitten Plentiful

Book:On Cats

Source: On Cats

“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Writing I Can Certain Social Bits Levels Deals Amount Cat Nuts Not Alone Because I Can Like Being Alone Cat Lady

Author:Courtney Love

“Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.”

Eye Cat Rounds Aviator Cat Eye

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.”

Knows World Needs Should Lord Cat Wings Gossip Butterfly Interfere Torn Mundane Amusing

Author:Gail Carriger

“Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.”

Feels Perfect Accepting Cat Dislike Incapable Threatened

Author:Kathy Young

“You must set down all the rules to your cat at the beginning of your relationship. You cannot add rules as you go along. Once these rules are set, you must never, under any circumstances, break any of them. Dare to break a rule, and you will never live it down. Trust me.”

Break Circumstances Cat Add Dare Our Relationship Trust Me

Author:Kathy Young

“Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.”

Three Air Messages Cat Fishes Breathe Acceptable Nutrition Bowls Buffets Fins

Author:Kathy Young

“Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.”

Men Made Courses Sex Results Feminism Cat Ignorant Superiors Made It Bags Literal

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.”

Ifs Men May Said Certain Next Teach Mankind Masters Disease Cat Saved Cures Being True Next Time

Book:Back to Methuselah

Source: Back to Methuselah