Cat Quote by Oliver Herford

“Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.”

Oliver Herford

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Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

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Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

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To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

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An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

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A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

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True love; an old fashioned sentiment.

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Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

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“At evening when the lamp is lit, The tired Human People sit And doze, or turn with solemn looks The speckled pages of their books. Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowl And in the Shadows softly growl, And roam about the farthest floor Where Kitten never trod before. And, crouching in the jungle damp, I watch the Human Hunter’s camp,…

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