Great quote about cats!

[HEyHEY]

Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.
--P. J. O'Rourke

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[Padraig18]

1. LOL

Great quote!

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[DenverDem]

2. You don't know my cats.

None of that is true.

[Skittles]

8. that quote to me sounds like a slam on cats and people who love them

it evokes the tired old sterotype of cats being unfeeling, selfish critters incapable of expressing love.

I will kick HEyHEy's ass.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Cats

...small women with fur coats.

[Patiod]

10. I disagree 100%

My friend said women were like cats and men were like dogs.

So so so so wrong.

Dogs/Women: "Hey! How am I doing? Are you happy? What are you thinking? Do you love me? Are you sure? Really!? You're sure you love me? What can I do to make you happy? Please tell me you love me! You're not out with another dog/woman, are you? Penny for your thoughts. You still love me, right?"

Cats/Men: "Less talk, more petting. Move over, pet me now. Where's dinner? I don't care what you're thinking just so dinner is in the dish/on the table. Of course I love you, I stick around, don't I? Why do you always have to ask?"

[Jeebo]

4. I like this one . . .

I read it about 30 years ago in a book somewhere. It has stuck in my mind ever since. It goes something like this:

"Even the tamest domestic house cat is always stalking the jungle's edge."

That attribute is one of the reasons cats are such fascinating creatures. It's easy to see that they were domesticated by humans a lot more recently than dogs were.

Ron

[Patiod]

9. Oh please, they're not domesticated

They just hang out with us because the huntin is easier. If they don't like the food, they're history

[kedrys]

5. God made the cat so man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Quote from I can't remember where, but which was the source of the title for a nifty National Geographic special about cats ages ago.

[Bryn]

6. My Collection of Cat Quotes

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
--Albert Schweitzer

It is a scientific fact that petting a cat REDUCES blood pressure!

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul" --Jean Cocteau

"No matter how tired or wretched I am, a puddycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind."-- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

"In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats." ~ English Proverb

A man possessed a cat on which he doted; So fine she was, so soft, so silky coated -- Her very mew had beauty. ~ Fables, LaFontaine, 1668

"If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here'." ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

"How nice it is to think that feline dreams, like our own, are painted with creative brush strokes from time to time. Perhaps my cats and I even share the same dream: a world where all kittens are wanted and loved, and where every cat has a safe, warm place to sleep...and to dream." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?"
Mark Twain

How empty are the lives of those who have never been blessed with the spirit of a little cat invading their hearts....

Time spent with cats is never wasted - Colette

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love. --James Herriott

"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

"A PURR IS MUSIC PLAYED BY THE HEART" Author unknown

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot

"How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"There's so much we don't understand about the cats who live with us. But we've learned so much from them. About living in the moment: that it's good to stretch out in the sunshine. About being patient: that the trust of a feral cat cannot be commanded or rushed. About loving: that the more one gives, the more one gets."-Ellen Perry Berkeley

French legend says that cats are the only being who know the path back to the Garden of Eden.

[Skittles]

7. great quotes

I belive it was Jane Pauley who said, "you cannot look at a sleeping cat and be tense."