T. S. Eliot Quotes, Cat Quotes, Animal Quotes

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Cat Quotes , Pet Quotes

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

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

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Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Nature Quotes , Cat Quotes

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Believe Quotes , Cat Quotes

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Cat Quotes

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

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Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

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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.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Cat Quotes , Perfect Quotes

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

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Cat Quotes

She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Dog Quotes , Cat Quotes

Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

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