Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Beach Quotes, Cat Quotes

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Cat Quotes , Excellence Quotes

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Cat Quotes , Animal Quotes

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Cat Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Heart Quotes , Cat Quotes

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Cat Quotes

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Cat Quotes , Swings Quotes

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Love Quotes , Cat Quotes

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Cat Quotes , Survival Quotes

I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Cat Quotes , Remember 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes , Thinking Quotes

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Moving Quotes , Cat Quotes

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Cat Quotes , Men Quotes

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Cat Quotes

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Believe Quotes , Cat Quotes

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Kings Quotes , Cat Quotes

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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Tags : A. S. J. Tessimond Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wind Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wind Quotes

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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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Cat Quotes , Tree Quotes