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A beating heart and an angel's soul, covered in fur. ~Lexie Saige~

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ~Groucho Marx~

A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate. ~Elizabeth Lemarchand~

A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge. ~Jenny de Vries~

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~William Ralph Inge

A cat can climb down from a tree without the assistance of the fire department or any other agency. The proof is that no one has ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree. ~Anon~

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. ~Pam Brown~

A cat can purr its way out of anything. ~Donna McCrohan~

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm. ~Charles Horton Cooley~

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. ~Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.~

A cat doesn't know what it wants and wants more of it. ~Richard Hexem~

A cat doesn't 'roll' well with a change of someone else's making. ~Carole Wilbourn~

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. ~Ernest Hemingway~

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. ~Judith Merkle Riley~

A cat is always at the wrong side of the door. ~Anon~

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. ~Anon~

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson~

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Vakaoka Genri~

A cat is a very special friend who comes into your life. When it comes it brings warmth, companionship, contentment and love. Whether it's long-haired, short-haired, pedigreed or "heinz" makes no difference. ~Sharon Lundblad~

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. ~Mark Twain~

A cat is never vulgar. ~Carl Van Vechten~

A cat is nobody's fool. ~Heywood Brown ~

A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. ~Arthur Bridges~

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. ~Joseph Epstein~

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

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ~Barbara Holland~

A cat must either have beauty and breeding, or it must have a profession. ~Margaret Benson~

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

A cat's behavior is a direct reflection of his feelings. ~Carole~

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs. ~Sarah Thompson~

A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human. ~Anon~

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. ~Jerome K. Jerome~

A cat's behavior is a direct reflection of his feelings. ~Carole Wilbourn~

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. ~Jerome K. Jerome~

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin. ~Anon~

A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat. ~Linda W. Lewis~

A cat sleeping on your bed is a far more pleasant companion than a ninety-pound Labrador with bad breath. Furthermore, cats do not snore or break wind. ~H. Monger Burdock~

A cat stretches from one end of my childhood to the other. ~Blaga Dimitrova~

A cat, though independent, has a way of letting you know that without you life just wouldn't be worthwhile. ~Sharon Lundblad~

A cat will assume the shape of its container. ~Anon~

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave. ~Theophile Gautier~

A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it. ~Frank Perkins~

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore. ~Sir Francis Bacon~

A cat will sit washing his face within two inches of a dog in the most frantic state of barking rage, if the dog be chained. ~Carl van Vechten~

A cat, with its phosporescent eyes that shine like lanterns and sparks flashing from its back, moves fearlessly through the darkness, where it meets wandfering ghosts, witches, alchemists, necromancers, grave-robbers, lovers, thieves, murderers, grey-cloaked patrols, and all the obscene larvae that only emerge at night. ~Theophile Gautier~

A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them. ~Sidney Denham~

A cat...would check to see if you brought anything to eat, and if not, would turn and walk away, tail held high. ~Mike Deupree~

A common cat is four legal pence in value...

A Pound is the worth of a pet animal of the king. ~Hywel Dda~

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share. ~John Updike~

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat. ~Evan Esar~

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. ~John Dobbin~

A dog I have always said, is prose, a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden~

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person. ~Mugsy Peabody~

A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. ~Robert J. Vogel~

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't need to know that everybody loves him. ~William Kunstler~

A dog knows his master, a cat does not. ~Anon~

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. ~George Mikes~

A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most. ~Danielle Asson~

After extensive research, I have determined that cats do have nine lives. But this has made for some awkward moments on the autopsy table since you can never really tell which life is nine. ~David James~

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray~

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog --a cat's a cat. ~T. S. Eliot~

A harmless, necessary cat. ~William Shakespeare~

Ah! Little do you know how swiftly fly

The venomed darts of feline jealousy.

~Robert Southey~

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 its title? ~Mark Twain~

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 and 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~

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

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

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau~

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. ~Agnes Repplier~

A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude. ~Champfleury~ (Jules Fleury-Husson)

All cats are possessed of a proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to treat him as an inferior being. ~Michael Joseph ~

All cats like being the focus of attention. ~Peter Gray~

All cats love a cushioned couch. ~Theocritus~

All you have to remember is Rule 1: When in doubt - wash. ~Paul Gallico~

All loyalty has a little fur in it. ~M. Malloy~

A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan~

Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. ~Sidney Denham~

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ~Andre Norton~

Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes. Some day there might actually be something there. ~Anon~

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. ~Albert Einstein~

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain~

A man who was loved by 300 women singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat. ~Elayne Boosler~

A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan~

Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. Dogs are the peasants, dutifully plodding behind their leaders. ~Robert Stearns~

A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry. ~Louis Wain~

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. ~Carl Van Vechten~

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another. ~Irving Townsend~

Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. ~Charlotte Gray

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. ~Paul Corey~

Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. ~Louise A. Belcher~

Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. ~Maurice Burton~

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug. ~Margaret Benson~

A poet's cat, sedate and grave

As a poet well could wish to have…

~William Cowper~

Apparently, through scientific research, it has been determined that a cat's affection gland is stimulated by snoring, thus explaining my cat's uncontrollable urge to rub against my face at 2 a.m. ~Terri L. Haney~

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~

Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts? ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche~

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ~Desmond Morris~

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. ~Cleveland Amory~

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

A sleeping cat is ever alert. ~Fred Scwab~

As we all know, cats now rule the world. ~Anon~

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. ~Cleveland Amory~

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

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their own idea. ~Lilian Jackson Braun~

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. ~The Washington Post Magazine~

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their own idea. ~Lilian Jackson Braun~

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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~B~

Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively. ~Roni Schotter~

Before a cat will condescend

To treat you as a trusted friend,

Some little token of esteem

Is needed, like a dish of cream.

~T.S. Eliot~

Blessed are the Purr in Heart. ~Anon~

Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed? ~Winifred Carriere~

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary. ~Charles Baudelaire~

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~Barbara Holland~

By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. ~Colette~

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~ A Buddy Bear's Cats' World Collection ~

~A Work In Progress~

Here is another of our "Works In Progress". As with the other collections on Buddy Bear's Cats' World and KnightOwl's Realm, there will always be more content to be added. We're here to pay tribute to our Cats, and to post our collections of Cat Quotes, Proverbs, Sayings, and other good things.

This particular collection is the 'Cat Quotes' collection, part of KnightOwl's steadily growing collection from around the world and at home!

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