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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.”

World Animal Garden Cat Pet Kitten Animal World Rosebuds

Author:Robert Southey

“An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.”

Moving Lying Fall Actors Animal Acting Dog Cat Falling In Love Foxes

Author:Francois Truffaut

“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”

Ifs Way Inspiration Nature Animal Learning Cat Experience Curiosity Pet Tails

Author:Mark Twain

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

Life Funny Lying Humanity Differences Animal Honesty Cat Intelligence Witty Nine Honest Truth Funny Cat Cat Dog Nine Lives

Author:Mark Twain

“I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?”

Feels Kind Mean Night Sleep Animal Rooms Dog Ought Offers Bed Travel Cat Hotel Hotel Rooms Lifeless Optional Small Animals

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.”

Ifs Said Would Be Remember Actors Animal Talking Cat Scared Tails Annoyed Expressive Talking To Him

Author:Christopher Walken

“I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!”

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Author:Betty White

“If a dog jumps 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.”

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”

Ifs Long Matter Black White Animal Cat Chinese Mice Black Or White Black Cat

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.”

Trying Littles Two Hard Shows Together Water Animal Pay Attention Teach Failing Behavior Cat Dolphins

Author:Frans de Waal

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”

Inspirational Mean Animal Dog Cat Genuine Stupid People

Book:3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”

People Thinking Use Funny Humanity Fighting Animal Cat Ignorant Noise Grammar Kitten Ignorant People Funny Cat Aggravating English Grammar

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

Ifs Humor Happens Funny Sides Animal Feet Land Cat Down And Comedian Toasts

Author:Steven Wright

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”

Love Humanity Causes Animal Cat Work Out Kitten Inconvenience Feline Funny Cat Purring Purring Cats Cat Lover Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Rescue Cats

Author:Pam Brown

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”

Ifs Humanity Animal Mouths Cat Allergic

Author:Daniel Handler

“The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”

Animal Cat Gray

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

Animal Strange Cat Curious Monkeys

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“There are no ordinary cats.”

Animal Ordinary Cat Pet

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Hard Facts Law Sleep Animal Millions Essentials Majors Tasks Cat Physics Lazy One Time Cosmic Trusted Spinning Laws Of Physics

Author:Kate Atkinson

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

Humanity Animal Greater Cat Pet Kitten Funny Cat Purring Purring Cats Cat Lover Pets Cats Cat Love Cute Cat

Author:Charles Dickens

“The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”

Animal Dog Cat Horatio Hamlet And Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Denmark In Hamlet

Author:William Shakespeare

“The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.”

Animal Talking Sitting Cat Distance Active Roof Committees Comrade Sparrows Paws

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.”

People Humans Said Three Christ Human Beings Animal Worst Dog Capable Cat Greed Lust Cruelty Denial Excess Loyal Monkeys Rabbits Fever Traitor Annoyance Peacock Opportunist Roosters

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.”

Looks Faces Humanity Animal Understood Cat Ugly Pet Suspicion Kitties Feline Funny Cat Purring Purring Cats Cat Lover Cat Love Scolding Inspirational Cat Cute Cat

Author:Charlotte Gray

“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”

Men Looks Eye Remember Inspiring Animal Dog Military Equal Cat Look Up Pigs

Author:Winston Churchill

“Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.”

Wells Littles Soul Animal Creatures Cat Practicals Suits

Author:Gail Carriger

“It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.”

People Wells Kind Doe Christian Certain Bits Animal Cat Welfare Kicks Cheerful Admirable Animal Welfare Pillaging

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.”

Trying Believe I Can Two Three Grows Animal Five Four Impossible Drink Six Cat Disappear Breakfast Shrinks Impossible Things

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

World Law Animal Fire Dying Grew Cat Gangsters Animal World

Author:Stephen King

“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”

World Littles Eye Lasts Moving Animal Saws Seeing Cat Dancer Last Time Lap Sociopath Animal World Slick Furry

Book:Safe House

Source: Safe House

“No one wants to hear you speak, Bradie Boy," Kitten said in that scratchy voice of hers. "Like that's ever stopped me. I can't believe we've got a bird and a cat in the car." Bradley chuckled. "I guess that makes me animal control. Nice." "I'm a Teran," Kitten said tightly, "not a cat. And if I hear you call me a cat one more time, I'll scratch your eyes out. Understand?" "Oh, I understand. I just don't think you'll like what I'm understanding, which is that you can't wait to get your hands on me.”

Ifs Thinking Want Believe Said I Can Hands Eye Speak Waiting Understanding Voice Animal Boys Nice Car Bird Cat Call Me More Time Scratches Kitten

Book:Red Handed

Source: Red Handed

“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”

Knows Men Said Reason Feelings Animal Laughing Degrees Cat Defined Reasoning Resolve Equations Differentiate Crabs

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it”

Humans Looks May Self Evil Interest Animal Cat Naked Immoral Projection Self Interest Breaking Rules Evil Look

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“So do all animals react that way to you? I know you said rats steer clear." "Most do. They see a human, but they smell someting else. It confuses them. Canines are the worst, though." He paused. "No, cats are the worst. I really don't like cats." I laughed.”

Knows Way Humans Said Animal Clear Worst Cat Smell Laughed Rats Steers Canine

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.”

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Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

Animal Liberty Cat Mess Anarchist

Book:For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”

Animal Divine Cat

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.”

Ifs Matter Order Difficult Friendship Animal Habit Gains Cat Philosophical Slave Affection Worthy Sentiments Extravagant Tenacious Methodical Neatness

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.”

Said Animal Duty Sitting Cat Ancient Bother Hostile Mending Fooling Around

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.”

Animal Sacrifice Cat Teeth Merit Acquire Philanthropy Mice

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”

Funny Animal Mets Cat Witty Superiors Pet Thinker Kitties Pet Animals Funny Cat Pets Cats Cat Love Cute Cat

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.”

Knows Doe Jobs Humanity Animal Cat Train Pet Toilets Impressive Kitten Pets Cats

Author:Joseph Epstein

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