Cats Quotes by Cleveland Amory

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

— Cleveland Amory

I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly…

— Cleveland Amory

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

— Cleveland Amory

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

— Cleveland Amory

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the…

— Cleveland Amory

“When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.”

— Cleveland Amory

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

— Cleveland Amory

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog,…

— Cleveland Amory

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of…

— Cleveland Amory

To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about…

— Cleveland Amory

I will omit but I will not distort.

— Cleveland Amory

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

— Cleveland Amory

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

— Cleveland Amory

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally…

— Cleveland Amory