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Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat.
Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart?
They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
- Fred Schwab

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.
- Louis J. Camuti, DVM

In spite of the veneration which the Egyptians had for the cat,
we are told that the punishment for adultery by a woman in Egypt
was to be sewn into a sack with a live cat and flung into the Nile.
- Mildred Kirk

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.
- Lloyd Alexander

In his castle He is King And I his vassal.
- Mildred R. Howland

There are people who reshape the world by force or argument,
but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes
itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
- Allen and Ivy Dodd

I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please.
People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you.
You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away.
You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that.
- Patricia McPherson

No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement
and satisfaction who have never pursued and successfully caught his tail.
- Rosalind Welcher

One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work -
supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart
to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat.
The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our
available tools of analysis.
- Douglas Adams Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men, and women
tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.
- Jacqueline Bisset

Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time.
- Kyoya, 9 Advice from Kids

If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.
- Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog
that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
- Dereke Bruce

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)

Time spent with cats is never wasted
- Collette

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
- Unknown

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!
- Barbara Holland

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
- William Lyon Phelps

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats
- Colonial American Proverb

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever,
and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -
and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well;
but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain

It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal,
tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to
extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship,
but not your slave.
- Theophile Gautier

A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.
- Bill Adler

The really great thing about cats is their endless variety.
One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color scheme,
income, personality, mood. But under the fur; whatever color it may be,
there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
- Eric Gurney

A human may go for a stroll with a cat; he has to walk a dog.
The cat leads the way, running ahead, tail high, making sure you
understand the arrangement. If you should happen to get ahead,
the cat will never allow you to think it is following you.
It will stop and clean some hard-to-reach spot, or investigate a
suspicious movement in the grass; you will find yourself waiting
a fidgeting like the lackey you are. But this is not annoying to
cat lovers, who understand and appreciate a good joke, even when it is on them.
- Robert Stearns

What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know."
"They don't care if you like them. They haven't the slightest notion of gratitude,
and they never pretend. They take what you have to offer, and away they go.
- Mavis Gallant

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases,
pretends to sleep that she may see the more clearly,
and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.
- Francois Rene

There wanst was two cats at Kilkenny, Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they quarrell'd and fit, They scratch'd and they bit, Till, excepting their nails,
And the tips of their tails, Instead of two cats, there warn't any.
- Anonymous

Cats know not how to pardon.
- Jean de la Fontaine

Is it yet another survival of jungle instinct, this hiding away from prying eyes
at important times? Or merely a gesture of independence,
a challenge to man and his stupid ways?
- Michael Joseph

It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
- Norwegian Proverb

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious,
difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals,
and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.
- Pierre Loti

Cats do not declare their love much; they enact it, by their
myriad invocations of our pleasure.
- Vicki Hearne

Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore.
- Sidney Denham

Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature.
- Paul Annixter

Cats, like men, are flatterers.
- William S. Landor

For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
- Christopher Smart, Jubliate Agno. From a study of the poet's cat Jeoffrey

Cats, by means of their whiskers, seem to possess something like an additional sense:
these have, perhaps, some analogy to the antennae of moths and butterflies.
- Rev. W. Bingley

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
- Adlai Stevenson

In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
- Roseanne Anderson

Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
- Wright Morris

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master
is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is
by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder -
the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels -
we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition
is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting
- Robley Wilson, Jr.

Cats seem to go on the principle that is never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as
modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess
the same qualities they do.
Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority,
yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs.
Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs
should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing,
for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
- Will Cuppy

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time.
It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment,
it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau

Some cats is blind, and stone-deaf some, But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb
- Anthony Henderson Euwer

The cat Bastet sat perched on the rim of the tub, watching me
through slitted golden eyes. She was fascinated by baths.
I suppose total immersion in water must have seemed to her a
peculiar method of cleansing oneself.
- Elizabeth Peters

Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
- Indian Proverb

A cat's a cat and that's that.
- American folk saying

Now, as you all know, there is nothing a cat dislikes so much as water; j
ust watch your kitty shake her paws daintily when she steps into a puddle,
and see how disgusted she is if a drop of water falls on her nose and back.
- Agnes A. Sandham

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
- Dave Platt

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
- Bruce Graham

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
- Unknown

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
- Louis Wain

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.Cats have never forgotten this.
- Unknown

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
- Nan Porter

Cats are smarter than dogs.You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
- Jeff Valdez

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
- English proverb

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
- Mary Bly

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments,
but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
- Faith Resnick

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on
silent haunches and then, moves on.
- Carl Sandburg

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure,
could walk on a cloud without coming through.
- Jules Verne

There was an old bulldog named Caesar, Who went for a cat just to tease her;
But she spat and she spit, Till the old bulldog quit.
Now when poor Caesar sees her, he flees her.
- Unknown

Said a miserly peer at the Abbey, "I fear I shall look rather shabby,
For I've replaced my ermine. Infested with vermin, With the fur of my dear defunct tabby
- Unknown

A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.
- Robert Southey

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
- Ernest Menaul