"Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks."
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"Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't."
"Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle."
"Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?"
"Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie."
"Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression."
"There wasn't room to swing a cat there."
"Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone."
"Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark."
"Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being."
"The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats."
"Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."
"There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat."
"The naming of cats is a difficult matter"
"cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall."
"Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred."
"His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things."
"(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)"
"Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word."
"I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor."