Animal Quote by Compton Mackenzie Download Open image “The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.” — Compton Mackenzie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Cat Decided Inspirational Mystery
“We didn’t domesticate cats. They domesticated themselves. But not totally, you know? You take a good look at any house cat, and you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Apparently, cats are very, very curious and have a mysterious power that draws people to them. — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
