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Sir
Winston Churchill:
PM of England (1874 - 1965)
Sir Winston owned a
cat named Jock who attended many wartime Cabinet meetings.
Rumor has it that meals at the Churchill household could
not begin until the ginger colored tabby was at the
table. |
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Samuel
Clemens: Mark Twain
(born
1835)
Quote
If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve
the man but deteriorate the cat.
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Abraham
Lincoln: US President (1809)
Abe
came to presidential office accompanied by Tabby, a
cat belonging to his son. No matter how much cats fight,
there always seems to be plenty of kittens. Quote by
Abraham Lincoln. |
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Nostradamus:
Prophet
The French Astrologer,
1503-1566, had a cat named Grimalkin. |
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Edward
Lear: Artist and author (1812-1888)
Edward
was devoted to Foss, his tabby cat. His devotion was so
great that when he decided to move to San Remo, Italy,
he instructed his architect to design a replica of his
old home in England so Foss would not be disturbed and
suffer a minimum of distress after the move. Lears drawings
of his stripped tabby cat are well-known, especially those
which accompany his rhyme, The Owl and the Pussycat. |
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Henry
III, King of France
(1551
- 1589)
The King of France must always appear to be
bold and fearless, and Henry did his best to keep his
image intact. But he had an Achilles heel, if a cat happened
to wander into his presence, the king would faint dead
away. |
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Sir
Walter Scott: poet and novelist
(1771
- 1832) author of Rob Roy and Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott was also an editor, critic
and deputy sheriff of Selkirk in 1799. Absorbed in folklore
and the supernatural, Scott was devoted to cats, and a
portrait of him by John Watson Gordon shows the author
at work at his desk with his tabby, Hinx, lying close
by. On the subject that fascinated him most, Scott wrote:
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing
in their minds than we are aware of. |
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Sir
Isaac Newton: philosopher
Sir Isaac Newton, famous for his laws of motion
and gravity, was a confirmed cat lover who was deeply
concerned about the welfare of his feline friends. Therefore,
so his research would go uninterrupted, and his cats should
not feel restricted and be at liberty to wander freely
in and out when the doors were closed, he invented the
cat-flap. |
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Michel
de Montaigne French author
(1533
- 1592)
When I play with my cat,
who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more
than I with her? |
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Miscellaneous
Note
Difficult as it
is to believe, not everyone loves cats. Genghis Kahn was
a famous cat-hater and so were Alexander the Great and
Julius Caesar. It may be that men with dreams to dominate
the world cant get used to the idea that cats wont submit
to them. The same streak of ailurophobia (cat hate) affected
the personalities of Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini,
and Adolph Hitler. |
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