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Wisdom, by, about, or exemplified by cats.

 

Cats have incredible vision - but they never see your flaws.
 - Anonymous

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
 - Louis Wain

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats.
 - Anonymous

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

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

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
 - Mark Twain

A person who manages to understand a cat is qualified to understand most anything else.
 - Anonymous

A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk.
 - Anonymous

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

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

Cats whiskers are so sensitive, they can find their way through the narrowest crack in a broken heart.
 - Anonymous

Don't use cats - they'll screw up your data.
 - Anonymous science professor to student

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner.
 - Gary Smith

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
 - Abraham Lincoln

I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long period of time.
 - Colette

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

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
 - Theophile Gautier

Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats. Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our eyes.
 - Gilbert Gude

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.
 - Don Addis

Owning a cat is a good forerunner of marriage. You learn that you cannot control another living being, or expect him/her to do everything you want.
 - Anonymous

The cat has nine lives - three for playing, three for straying, and three for staying.
 - Anonymous

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

Those who will play with cats must expect to get scratched.
 - Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

You can't help that. We're all mad here.
 - The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
 - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

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

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
 - Byron Nelson

 

 
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