An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Category: Animal Quotes
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Quote: Elyria on Cats
In the small cathedral of muscle and instinct,
the hind limbs do not strike—they harvest.
Not in anger, but in memory of a hunt
written long before the first house was built.
― Elyria
Quote: H.P. Lovecraft on Cats
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Horses
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Quote: Julia Child on Cats
As Therese Asche used to say “A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine.”
— Julia Child, “My Life in France“
Quote: Tran Thien Khiem on Cats and Dogs
Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
— Tran Thien Khiem
Quote: W. C. Fields on Cats
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
— W. C. Fields
Quote: Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat
“All right”, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Quote: Emily Brontë on Cats
I can say with sincerity that I love cats; furthermore I am going to give very good reasons why those who hate them are wrong.
— Emily Brontë
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