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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Sep 29, 2025
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
One cat just leads to another.
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
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 kind.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.