Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Category: Animal Quotes
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Quote: Oliver Herford On Cats
I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And every Bulrush on the river bank
A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.
— Oliver Herford, The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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