"Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Cat Quotes #Looks Quotes #Paws Quotes

“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
“If you do not love yourself to the depth of totality, you will never love love as a reality.”
“A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon... ...You'll be galloping up that hill.”
“What do they teach them at these schools?”
“If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.”
“I am from the planet of elegance.”
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”

Source : "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.
“There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spotâ€¦' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.”

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