Agnes Repplier Quotes, Children Quotes, Cat Quotes

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.

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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

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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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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wife 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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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

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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

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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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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Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Cat Quotes , May Quotes

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

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