T-W continued
"When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a
cat, the cat was there-in sunny weather-stretched at full length, asleep and
blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made
manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home
without a cat-and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat-may be a
perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"
-- Mark Twain
"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
"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering
outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a
word too much."
-- Mark Twain
"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be
taught any crime."
-- Mark Twain
"I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.
They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know,
outside of the girl you love, of course."
-- Mark Twain
"That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her."
-- Mark Twain
"Cats
are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the
snow. "
--- Jeff Valdez
"An ordinary kitten will ask more
questions than any five year old."
--Carl Van Vechten
"There is, indeed, no single
quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage."
--Carl Van Vechten
"Do our cats name us? My former
husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big
Hamburger."
--Eleanora Walker
"The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way
alone, but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind."
--- H.G. Wells
"Did St. Francis really preach to the birds?
Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to
preach to the cats."
-- Rebecca West
"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
"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an
oxymoron."
-- George Will
"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even
when motionless, seems to flow."
-- George F. Will
"Women, poets and especially artists like cats; delicate natures only can
realize their sensitive nervous systems."
-- Helen M. Winslow
"The trouble with cats is that
they've got no tact."
-- P.G. Wodehouse
"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?"
-- Steven Wright
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