The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.