Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
BARBARA MERTZThe way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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