Kiki, the Quotations Examiner mascot and friend of 16 years.
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November 20-22 are Cat Days, which are designed to recognize our cute little feline friends. But really, as any pet owner will tell you, everyday is cat day. These sweet creatures can bring so much fun and joy into our lives and they truly do become part of the family. Even though they don’t listen and make a lot of mischief around the house, you really can’t stay mad at kitties for very long. All they have to do is rub up next to you and purr…and all is forgiven. These quotes are to salute our cats—the little animals with such big personalities.
1. “The gingham dog went ‘Bow-wow-wow!’
And the calico cat replied ‘Mee-ow!’
The air was littered, an hour or so,
With bits of gingham and calico.”
–Eugene Field
2. "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
–Mark Twain
3. “But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.”
–Alexander Pope
4. “The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
–Benjamin Franklin
5. “The trouble with a kitten is
THAT
Eventually it becomes a
CAT.”
–Ogden Nash
6. “A harmless necessary cat.”
–William Shakespeare
7. “It would have made a cat laugh.”
–James Robinson Planché
8. “When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?”
–Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
9. “The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.”
–Adlai Ewing Stevenson
10. “When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
–T.S. Eliot
11. “Oh I am a cat that likes to
Gallop about doing good.”
–Stevie Smith
12. “Self-reliant like the cat—
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth.”
–Marianne Moore
(Sources:
Bartlett, John. (2002). Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. Little, Brown and Company.
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press.)
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