Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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.
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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