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A cat may look like a king.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: title of a Pamphlet
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It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the
cat] nine lives instead of one.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
Source: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat (fable iii)
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Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!
Author: Henry Carey
Source: The Dragon of Wantley (act II, sc. 1)
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Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting
down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know,
Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.
Therefore what does that signify to me?"
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. II, ch. VI)
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Confound the cats! All cats--alway--
Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;
By night a nuisance and by day--
Confound the cats!
Author: Rev. Orlando Thomas Dobbin
Source: A Dithyramb on Cats
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The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On the Death of a Favorite Cat
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The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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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 wagged contempt at Fate.
Author: Sir William Watson (2)
Source: An Epitaph
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Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.
Author: Sir William Watson (2)
Source: An Epitaph
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it
catches mice.
Author: Sir William Watson (2)
Source: An Epitaph
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Cats are designated friends.
Author: Norman Corwin
Source: None
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Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Author: Oliver Herford
Source: None
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A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
Author: Stephen Wright
Source: None
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As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Author: Ellen Perry Berkeley
Source: None
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If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
Author: Nan Porter
Source: None
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
Source: None
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Author: Monica Edwards
Source: None
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
Author: George Will
Source: None
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Source: None
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The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
Author: Ernest Menaul
Source: None
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
Author: W.L. George
Source: None
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When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
Author: John Heywood
Source: None
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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Author: Theophile Gautier
Source: None
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Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.
Author: John Dingman
Source: None
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Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
Author: James Gorman
Source: None
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Author: Theophile Gautier
Source: None
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Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
Author: Eleanor Farjeon
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Source: None
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Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.
Author: Eleanora Walker
Source: None
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Source: None
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Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Author: Theophile Gautier
Source: None
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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.
Author: Pierre Loti
Source: None
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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?
Author: Fernand Mery
Source: None
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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
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Source: None
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Author: Steven Wright
Source: None
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