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Quotes About Cats

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Cats and Kittens

Quotations & Citations:

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

~Tay Hohoff

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

~Cynthia E. Varnado

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.

~Nan Porter

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

The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

~Doug Larson

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

~Paula Poundstone

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

~Pam Brown

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.

~J.A. McIntosh

It doesn’t do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don’t respect you for it.

~Susan Howatch

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

~Jean Burden

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it’s affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.

~Helen Thomson

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

~Jules Champfleury

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~Edgar Allan Poe

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

~Jules Reynard

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

~Italo Calvino

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

~Lemony Snicket

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

~Terry Pratchett

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

~Charles Dickens

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.

~T.S. Eliot

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.

~Faith Resnick

Kittens are angels with whiskers.

~Alexis Flora Hope

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

~Jenny de Vries

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

~Author Unknown

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

~Hippolyte Taine

Quotes About Patience

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Patience

Quotations & Citations:

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

~Dutch Proverb

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

~Paul Sweeney

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

~Mac McCleary

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

~ Molière

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

~Author Unknown

Beware the fury of a patient man.

~John Dryden

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

~Paulo Coelho

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

~Lord Chesterfield

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

~Ambrose Bierce

He that can have patience can have what he will.

~Benjamin Franklin

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

~Franklin P. Jones

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

~George-Louis de Buffon

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

~Aristotle

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.

~Jarod Kintz

Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

~Leo Tolstoy

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

Patience is also a form of action.

~Auguste Rodin

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

~Margaret Thatcher

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

~William Shakespeare

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

~John Milton

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

~Chinese Proverb

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

~Michel de Montaigne

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

~Hal Borland

Quotes About Wisdom

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Wisdom

Quotations & Citations:

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

~Maurice Switzer (or Abraham Lincoln)

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

~Elbert Hubbard

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

~Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom begins at the end.

~Daniel Webster

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

~Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

~David Star Jordan

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

~Mary Wilson Little

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

~Tom Wilson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

~Mark Twain

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

~Bill Veeck

The years teach much which the days never knew.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.

~Sara Teasdale

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

~Aristotle

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~Juvenal

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

~Author Unknown

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

~John Buchan

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

~Socrates

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

~A.A. Hodge

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

~Author Unknown

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

~Chinese Proverb

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~Norman Cousins

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

~James Gibbons Huneker

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

~George Santayana

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

~Doug Larson

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

~Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

~William Wordsworth

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

~William Cowper

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

~Sophocles

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.

~Lemuel K. Washburn

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

~Robert Brault

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

~East African Proverb

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~John Lennon

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

~Edward C. Steadman

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

~William James

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

~Bertolt Brecht

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~Aristotle

Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

~Esther Davis-Thompson

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

~Zen Proverb

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

~Josh Billings

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

~Robert Brault

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

~Mehmet Murat ildan

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

~Paulo Coelho

The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

~Martin H. Fischer

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

~Herb Caen

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

~Charles Dickens

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

No man was ever wise by chance.

~Seneca

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

~George Bernard Shaw

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