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Pastimes : Pussy Cats
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To: TimF who wrote (35)9/13/2006 8:23:45 PM
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff. --(Unknown)

Avoid dogs whenever you can. Remember... Cats are
poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral

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

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 who hate cats, will come back as mice in
their next life. --Faith Resnick

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a
human being is not the ability to produce food which
they take for granted--but his or her entertainment
value. --Geoffrey Household

If a dog jumps into 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.--A. N. Whitehead

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot
be made the slave of the leash. 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

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

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

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by
little, they become its visible soul.--Jean Cocteau

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection,
patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how
many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming
cats?--Fernand Mery

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a
pastime to her more than she is to me? --Montaigne

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats
that enables one to come off as a sane person.
--Dan Greenberg

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom
of cats is infinitely superior.--Hippolyte Taine

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat,
and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove
his fur from your couch.--Leo Dworken

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good,
which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to
feel as much of the time as possible.--Roger Caras

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless,
seems to flow. --George F. Will

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in
nature has a purpose. --Garrison Keillor

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

A meow massages the heart. --Stuart McMillan

Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this
by 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. --James Gorman

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection
we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would
purr.
--Martin Buxbaum

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them.
They do not always care enough to do anything about
it.
--Winifred Carriere

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home
that has a cat.--Wesley Bates

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
--P. G. Wodehouse

Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human
voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.
--Stephen Baker

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire,
he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
--Jean Burden

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing
exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute
in the world.--Lynn M. Osband

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good
time, for they are unfailingly ingenious in that
respect. --James Mason

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.
--Hank Ketchum

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and
cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities
as well.--Missy Dizick

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

How we behave toward cats here below determines our
status in heaven. --Robert A. Heinlein

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter
without confinement, and love without penalties.
--W. L. George

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 kind.
--Cleveland Amory

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world -
the clock and the cat. --Emile Auguste Chartier

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any
dog.--Eleanor Clark

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open
them in about six days,take a look around, then
close them again for the better part of their lives.
--Stephen Baker

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

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

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.--Leonardo da
Vinci

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of
life: music and cats. --Albert Schweitzer

You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be
partners.--Sir Harry Swanson

There are no ordinary cats.--Colette

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

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so
feeble, He gave him the cat.--Warren Eckstein

There are few things in life more heartwarming than
to be welcomed by a cat.--Tay Hohoff

One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency
in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on
top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend
they do. --Barbara Webster

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
--Jules Reynard

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the
owner.--Stephen Baker

Of all animals, he alone attains to the
Contemplative Life.--Andrew Lang

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own
ends...--Saki (H. H. Munro)

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly
understand the cat mind.--St. George Mivart

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice
versa, and often simultaneously.--Louis F. Camuti, DVM

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
--George F. Will

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

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.--Louis Wain

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same
urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
--Jim Davis

Her function is to sit and be admired.--Georgina
Strickland Gates

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

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the
comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of
existence from without, like the Buddha.
--Andrew Lang

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
--Jules Champfleury

If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then,
how could his human remain possessed.--Winifred
Pierriere

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to
wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. --Margaret Mead

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

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

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

One cat just leads to another.--Ernest Hemingway

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

There are many intelligent species in the universe.
They are all owned by cats--Anonymous

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

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

Time spent with cats is never wasted.--Colette

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

Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.--John S. Nichols

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