Tortoiseshell Cat Quotes & Sayings

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time. — Clea Duvall

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. — Moliere

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. — Henry Fonda

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning. — Katsuki Sekida

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aunt and Katriona kept a few chickens, but the only other domestic animal they had - if either "domestic" or "had" was applicable - was Flinx, their not-a-house-cat. He was presently a fat tortoiseshell puddle sprawled in the sunlight a few rows over. Since he was only crushing a few nonessential greens, which would regrow anyway, they let him be. Cats — Robin McKinley

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It's not just humans who have trisomies of the sex chromosomes. One day you may be happily amazing your friends with your confident statement that their tortoiseshell cat is female when they deflate you by telling you that their pet has been sexed by the vet and is actually a Tom. At this point, smile smugly and then say 'Oh, in that case he's karyotypically abnormal. He has an XXY karyotype, rather than XY'. And if you're feeling particularly mean, you can tell them that Tom is infertile. That should shut them up. — Nessa Carey

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' — Guy Kawasaki

Great books make great being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke

I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about. — Graham Greene

This was the moment. The change in the tide that shifts everything. The point in time we would look back on and mark and remember. From here on, everything was different. — Mia Garcia

Broad-faced she-cat stood among the ferns, her tortoiseshell-and-white fur patched and scarred from long-past battles. Her amber eyes gleamed like tiny gold moons; they seemed much brighter than the rest of the she-cat, and Tigerclaw was uncomfortably aware that he could see the leaves and ground on the other side of her. — Erin Hunter

One was an ancient tortoiseshell cat with arthritis, who creaked around the house--but when Aunt Sibby flickered her fingers and crooned, Miminy, miminy, tall-as-a-chi-mi-ny, danced on his hind legs like a kitten. — Jane Louise Curry