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Felines of the Week!
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Past Quotes of the Week!
"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart."
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
"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."
" Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so
aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use."
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments,
but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a
cloud without coming through."
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a
whole human being."
"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to
do."
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom
they keep it to themselves."
"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat
smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I
would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up
and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it."
"The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him
to do so and not because he must."
"Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat."
"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him
from doing many of the fool things that complicate life."
"Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to skin,
or - skin to fur."
"With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, dignity, and courage
that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats?"
"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather."
"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love
without penalties."
"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one."
"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."
"Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has
never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant."
"A cat can purr its way out of anything."
"There are no ordinary cats."
"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we
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