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Juma and Minbu Approved Cat Quotes!...This list of quotes are presented in the order in which they appear in this website, i.e. according to the navigational order. Enjoy!
"Cats Are Not impure; they intermingle among us" -- The Prophet Muhammad (May the Peace and Blessings of God be upon him) "In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat." -- Warren Eckstein "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 "How you behave towards cats here below will determine your status in Heaven." -- Robert A Heinlein "Cats are the eye of God" -- T lobsang Rampa "Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated... Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries. -- Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory) "If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?" -- Unknown "When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?" -- Montaigne "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer "Beware of people who dislike cats." -- An Irish proverb "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." -- Leonardo da Vinci "Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" -- Theophile Gautier "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." --Jean Cocteau "A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes". -- An Indian Saying "A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world." -- An Irish Legend "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." -- Jules Verne "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." -- Jules Reynard "A cat may look at a king."-- An English Proverb "Curiosity killed the cat, Satisfaction brought it back!" -- An English Proverb "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." -- Ernest Hemingway "There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten" -- Jules Champfleury "Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties." -- W. L. George "You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners." -- Sir Harry Swanson "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." -- Mark Twain "Time spent with cats is never wasted." --May Sarton "To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense" -- Erasmus Darwin "In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence." -- Rosanne Amberson "When rats infest the Palace a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse." - - Chinese Proverb "If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr" - Martin Buxbaum "A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him." -- William Lyon Phelps "There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat." -- Tay Hohoff "Intelligence in the cat is underrated."-- Louis Wain "Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time."--Roger Caras "The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." -- Carl Van Vechten "There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." -- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." --Mark Twain "Civilization is defined by the presence of cats." --Unknown "There is no such thing as 'just a cat'." --Robert A. Heinlein "Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." -- Desmond Morris "I cannot deny that a cat lover and his cat have a master/slave relationship. The cat is the master." -- Arthur R. Kassin "To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality." -- Lilian Jackson Braun "To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique."--Jenny de Vries "A cat allows you to sleep on the bed - On the edge."--Jenny de Vries "If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again." -- Mark Twain "Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun." --Lloyd Alexander "No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me." -- Unknown "To err is human, to purr is feline." -- Robert Byrne "If cats could talk, they wouldn't." -- Nan Porter "A cat can purr its way out of anything."-- Donna McCrohan "The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle." -- Roseanne Ambrose Brown "A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it." -- Joseph Epstein "I purr, therefore I am." -- Anonymous "What greater gift than the love of a cat?"-- Charles Dickens "People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around." -- Susan Easterly "The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical." -- William S. Burroughs "A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings." -- William Ralph Inge "Wild beasts he created later; Lions with their paws so furious; In the image of the lion made he kittens small and curious" -- German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) "Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise." -- Charles Baudelaire, French Poet "Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed...the Great Cat." -- Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes, Egypt "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."Anonymous "You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense." --Jane Pauley "Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a lot of ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." --Joseph Wood Crutch "The cat has too much spirit to have no heart" --Ernest Menaul "It is in their eyes that their magic resides." -- Arthur Symons "Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha." -- Andrew Lang "A meow massages the heart." -- Stuart McMillan" "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. -- from "Miao" by Dilys Laing "Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor." --Walter Chandoha "The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls." --Eric Gurney "The cat was created when the lion sneezed" -- Arabian Proverb "Happy is the home with at least one cat" -- Italian Proverb "If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave"-- Theophile Gautier "There are no ordinary cats" -- Colette "There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat." --Tay Hohoff When God made the world, He chose to put animals in it, and decided to give each whatever it wanted. All the animals formed a long line before His throne, and the cat quietly went to the end of the line. To the elephant and the bear He gave strength, to the rabbit and the deer, swiftness; to the owl, the ability to see at night, to the birds and the butterflies, great beauty; to the fox, cunning; to the monkey, intelligence; to the dog, loyalty; to the lion, courage; to the otter, playfulness. And all these were things the animals begged of God. At last he came to the end of the line, and there sat the little cat, waiting patiently. "What will you have?"God asked the cat. The cat shrugged modestly. "Oh, whatever scraps you have left over. I don't mind." "But I'm God. I have everything left over." "Then I'll have a little of everything, please." And God gave a great shout of laughter at the cleverness of this small animal, and gave the cat everything she asked for, adding grace and elegance and, only for her, a gentle purr that would always attract humans and assure her a warm and comfortable home. But he took away her false modesty. Lenore Fleischer -- The Cat's Pajamas "In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown."-- H. P. Lovecraft 1890-1937 "A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."-- Sarah Thompson "There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person." -- Dan Greenberg "He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep." -- Saki "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 "When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'."-- Susan McDonough, D.M.V. "You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."-- George Mikes
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