#affection

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 shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #cats #dogs #food #god

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#amity #love #love

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. ↗

— David Axelrod

#affection #assignments #been #great #i

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#full #i #i do #know #like

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. ↗

— Princess Diana

#always #carried #difficult #eased #journey

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#animal #cat #difficult #does #friendship

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#cat #friend #never #slave #will

In life, there are no perfect affections. ↗

— James Merrill

#life #perfect

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace