Quotes About Cats Mark Twain

#1. The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. Inaugural address 1789

George Washington

#2. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

#3. Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Mark Twain

#4. If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Paul Gascoigne

#5. If you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Kahlil Gibran

#6. If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Tony-Paul De Vissage

#7. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

Mark Twain

#8. A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Mark Twain

#9. My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#10. Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.

Mark Twain

#11. Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

Will Advise

#12. And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Charles Kuralt

#13. 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

#14. Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Virgil Thomson

#15. In Honolulu, I saw cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.

Mark Twain

#16. I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn't write beautiful on my heart. I'm stuck with all my bad dreams. Bad dreams for bad boys. I guess that's the way it is for me. Look, there's nothing I can do about it.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

Mark Twain

#18. Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

#19. A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

#20. Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Mark Twain

#21. I don't see what the big deal is."
"It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate."
I shrugged.

Ilona Andrews

#22. When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Ian McKellen

#23. While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Mark Twain

#24. You can hardly expect us to allow a nineteen-year-old assassin to parade into our kingdom and start yapping orders, regardless of bloodline.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Mark Twain

#26. 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.

Mark Twain

#27. If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.

Paul Graham

#28. Say - what is dead cats good for, Huck?" "Good for? Cure warts with.

Mark Twain

#29. If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

#30. 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?

Mark Twain

#31. We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Margaret J. Wheatley