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DENISE FLAIM How do you stop a cat from scratching your furniture? Give her scratch and win lotto tickets.
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CHINESE PROVERBS It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get." Notice that I didn't say ...
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TARIDEANA BREAZEALE When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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MARK TWAIN Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will han...
MARK TWAIN Never try to outstubborn a cat.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Multiple cat households are a good thing.
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GILLIAN FLYNN Can I ask a question, sir?" said Maurice, as Death turned to go.
You May Not Get An Answer.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?
JOEL SAMAHA It is a lie.
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NEIL GAIMAN If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
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KATE MCKINNON A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they'...
CAROLINE PAUL Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The c...
LEWIS CARROLL Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"
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ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say on...
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ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you wer...
CASSANDRA CLARE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.
ELIZABETH CHANDLER You come with a cat and call it a rabbit
PROVERB Life is like a ‘Talking Tom Cat’ application on mobile phone, if you abuse her, she abuses back.
DR HITESH C SHETH And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that...
LEWIS CARROLL Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are...
LEWIS CARROLL I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black c...
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CORA CARMACK If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If y...
JEREMIAH P. OSTRIKER A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.
SAI MARIE JOHNSON Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.
WILL ADVISE This is where it gets tight. All right, you're headed off to a CAT scan. I'll see you in the operati...
BRIAN KOPELL If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
MARK TWAIN Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who ha...
ALEXIS OHANIAN The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Insurance companies need to take a close look at CAT modeling and geographic exposure. Although insu...
DONALD LIGHT It is heartbreaking to hear your animal like that. Normally, the cat will come down on his own if yo...
LINDA CATALANO i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. You have to find a pet that's compatible with your lifestyle. If you're gone a lot, maybe a cat or f...
LUCY MATHERS You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whisk...
DAN HOWELL Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuf...
DR. SEUSS Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelt...
HANNAH SIMONE You own a dog; you feed a cat.
JIM FIEBIG We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", O...
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because ...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I haven’t been avoiding you,”
“You’re lying. The last time we were both at dinne...
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The second worst is that of the Az...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
DOUGLAS ADAMS In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
DOUGLAS ADAMS O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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