A Quote by Robert Byrne

To err is human, to purr feline.

Robert Byrne

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Err Err Is Human Feline Human To Err Is Human

Quote Author

Robert Byrne
American - Author
1930 - 2016

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Herman Melville

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

Ellen Hopkins

A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.

Derek Tangye

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Agatha Christie

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

William Inge

If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.

Walter Murch

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Herman Melville

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.