Quotes Comfy Cats

 

 

Persian

In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, that cat walks with confidence.

-Roseanne Amberson

 

 

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Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat.
-Ancrene Riwle ("Nun's Rule," c.1200)

 

The cat is a guest and not a plaything.
-Colette

 

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
-Albert Einstein

 

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Calico Kitten

She walks her chosen path by our side; but our ways are not her ways, our influence does not remotely reach her.

-Agnes Repplier

 

 

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Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into catloving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them.
-William H. A. Carr

 

Alexander the Great, Napolean, and Hitler... were apparently terrified of small felines... If you want to conquer the world you had better not share even a moment with an animal that refuses to be conquered at any price, by anyone.
-Desmond Morris

 

He would lie or sit with his whiskers to the North before noonday, and due South afterwards. In general his manners were perfection. But occasionally when she called him, his face would appear to knot itself into a frown - at any rate to assume a low sullen look, as if he expostulated "Why must you be interrupting me, Madam, when I am thinking of something else?"
-Walter De la Mare

 

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Mother & Kittens

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

-Jules Champfleury

 

 

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There is no evidence that at any time during its history the cat's way of life and its reception into human homesteads were purposely planned and directed by humans, as was the case with all other domestic animals, at least from a very early stage of their association... In other words, there was no agent domesticating the cat besides the cat himself.
-Paul Leyhausen

 

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical 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.
-Theophile Gautier

 

Cats... can read your character better than a $50 an hour psychiatrist.
-Paul Gallico

 

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Friendly Cat

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour; has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

-Roy Blount Jr.

 

 

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