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CAT-QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY
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Cats are intended
to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
--Garrison Keillor
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2
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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?
--Anne Tyler
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3
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I was like a cat
always
climbing the wrong tree.
--Carson McCullers
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4
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Where there are no tigers, a wild
cat is very self- important.
--Korean Proverb
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5
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Cats seem to go on
the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
--Joseph Wood Krutch
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6
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No matter how much the
cats fight, there always seem to be plenty
of kittens.
--Abraham Lincoln
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7
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Those who'll play with
cats must expect to be scratched.
--Miguel de Cervantes
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8
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We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside
our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like
cats to favorite armchairs.
--Brian Carter
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9
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Cats and monkeys;
monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
--Henry James
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10
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A man who carries a cat
by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
--Mark Twain
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Are cats lazy?
Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained
the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much
as he likes?
--Fernand Mery
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12
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A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark
cellar at midnight without a light, looking for a black
cat that is not there.
--Lord Bowen
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13
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A cat will
look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you
straight in the eye and see his equal.
--Winston Churchill
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14
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At present cats have
more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents
of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the
fish.
--Derek Wall
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15
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Authors like cats
because
they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and
cats like authors for the same reasons.
--Robertson Davies
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16
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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.
--Camille Paglia
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Cats are smarter
than dogs. You can not get eight cats to
pull a sled through snow.
--Jeff Valdez
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Dogs come when they are called;
cats take a message and get back to you.
--Mary Bly
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His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes
-- cats -- I
believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
--Sir William Watson
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I am not a cat man,
but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance -- a sharp, vindictive
glance.
--James Thurber
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I love cats because
I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
--Jean Cocteau
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I never married because there was no need. I have
three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a
dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and
a cat that comes
home late at night.
--Marie Corelli
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If a dog jumps in 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.
--Alfred North Whitehead
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given
shape, then cat is
a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
--Doris Lessing
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25
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It does not matter whether the
cat is black or white. So long as it catches
the mouse, it is a good cat.
--Deng Xiaoping
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26
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One of the most striking differences between a
cat and a lie is that the
cat has only nine lives.
--Mark Twain
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Some people say that
cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and
they have many other fine qualities as well.
--Missy Dizick
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The cat could
very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
--Doug Larson
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The cat in
gloves catches no mice.
--Benjamin Franklin
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30
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The cat is
the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary
adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.
--Francis Galton
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that
cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.
If man could be crossed with a cat it
would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
--Mark Twain
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