CAT QUOTES
The following are some quotes relating to cats by some
famous and some not-so-famous people. The one thing that
they all have in common is their love for kitties.
There is something so peculiar in a cat's mysterious ways... - Eliot Walker [fl. 19th century]
A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne [1828-1905]
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. - Jules Verne [1828-1905]
Is there any animal that can move with such stealth and silent grace as a cat? - Author Unknown
Often cats wear an expression suggesting that mere humans should be grateful that cats condescend to live with them. - Author Unknown
You know the cat rules the house when he's sleeping in the best armchair and you're sitting on the floor. - Author Unknown
Nothing is so deflating as a cat's perfect indifference. - Author Unknown
Cats are so sleek and perfectly groomed, they can make one feel a little ashamed of one's appearance sometimes. - Author Unknown
A neighbour's cat, sitting on the wall, waiting to be stroked, brightens up an otherwise miserable walk to work. - Author Unknown
Cats are amazingly agile - they like to sidestep humans on the stairs and smirk as they hurtle headlong. - Author Unknown
Wedging itself between face and book, the cat's expression says, "You didn't really want to read that did you?" - Author Unknown
A kitten brings a home to life. - Author Unknown
The cat is the only animal I would willingly swap places with for an afternoon. - Author Unknown
Cats are perfect companions. Independent and resourceful, yet there when you need a cuddle. - Author Unknown
Velvety soft, yet full of claws - softness and sharpness exist side by side in this fascinating animal. - Author Unknown
Is there anything quite as expressive as a cat's tail? Kinked or straight it tells the story of a hundred moods. - Author Unknown
A cat will tolerate cuddling and stroking - if she has nothing better to do. - Author Unknown
Cats seem always to be finding new ways to do nothing. - Author Unknown
A cute expression and a purr, and the latest "shredding incident" is forgotten. - Author Unknown
Cats are the only pets who take all from us without ever surrendering their independence. - Author Unknown
Cats have the ability to find comfort in virtually any environment. - Author Unknown
Is there anything as beautiful as a cat's eyes? Jewel-like they captivate the heart. - Author Unknown
A little cat, meowing by the front door - the perfect welcome home after a hard day at work. - Author Unknown
Lovingly administer the pill prescribed by the vet and the cat will bite you to thank you for your pains. - Author Unknown
The friendship of a cat is all the sweeter because they are such discriminating animals. - Author Unknown
The purr - the most relaxing sound in the world. - Author Unknown
Whoever coined the phrase "poetry in motion" must have had the cat in mind. - Author Unknown
Cats fill a home with cozyness. - Author Unknown
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Nothing is quite as scruitinizing as a cat's stare. - Author Unknown
Even the fattest cat looks graceful. - Author Unknown
Even the smallest, scruffiest cat has the capacity to look elegant. - Author Unknown
To others she may seem just a common little moggy, but to me she is my friend, confidante and comfort. - Author Unknown
In any room, in any situation, a cat will seek out the most comfortable spot. - Author Unknown
A cat will sleep anywhere but in its designated "cat bed". - Author Unknown
There are as many different characters of cats as there are colours - and all utterly captivating. - Author Unknown
As every cat owner knows cats are individuals - some cats are skittish, some grave, some lazy - all lovable! - Author Unknown
Cats are seductive. It's hard not to love an animal that's so in love with itself. - Author Unknown
We can't help but admire cats' devious nature. Eager to please, loyal doggies are so boring by comparison. - Author Unknown
If humans are so smart and cats are "dumb animals", how come we work whilst cats doze in the sunshine? - Author Unknown
Of course cats are smarter than dogs - it takes intelligence to be that devious! - Author Unknown
The soft little ball of fur conceals a lion's heart. - Author Unknown
How clumsy, slow and shuffling we must seem to the agile cat! Luckily for us they tolerate us. - Author Unknown
Cats are the most cunning - what other creatures would we allow to destroy our furniture and still love? - Author Unknown
To you it may look like a beautiful new chair - to a cat it's one big scratch post. - Author Unknown
Just because you provide food, shelter and medicine for your cat, don't dare to expect any gratitude. - Author Unknown
Everything that moves, serves to interest and amuse a cat. - F.A. Paradis de Moncrif [1687-1770]
Obviously cats are superior to dogs - cats would never deign to roll over on demand. - Author Unknown
When you next step in a small mammal's guts, remember, it's just your cat's way of saying, "I love you". - Author Unknown
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You know you're a cat lover when your cat has smoken salmon for tea... and you have beans on toast. - Author Unknown
Nobody can give a withering stare quite as crushing as a disdainful cat. - Author Unknown
Buy a "cat toy" and it'll be surveyed with complete indifference. However an expensive scarf... naturally, it's cat toy heaven! - Author Unknown
A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel. - Portuguese Proverb
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. - Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849]
Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. - F.A. Paradis de Moncrif [1687-1770]
Nobody can truly own a cat. - Old British Saying
A cat's eyes, blazing fiercely through the dark - a connection to a primeval world we had forgotten. - Author Unknown
It's better to feed one cat than many mice. - Norwegian Proverb
Gaze with those bright languid segments green, and prick those velvet ears - but prithee do not stick thy latent talons in me... - John Keats [1795-1821], from "To Mrs Reynold's Cat"
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. - Jerome K. Jerome [1859-1927]
A cat's a saint when there are no mice about. - Japanese Proverb
Happy is the home with at least one cat. - Italian Proverb
Who could believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? - Irish Saying
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. - Irish Proverb
Even a cat is a lion in her own lair. - Indian Proverb
A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world. - Irish Legend
A cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. - John Heywood [c.1497-c.1580]
Dynasties of cats, as numerous as the dynasties of the Pharaohs, succeed each other under my roof. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
The cat is a dilettante in fur. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
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[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society... - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
No workman can guild a door which shall be proof against a cat or a lover. - French Saying
Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room. - French Proverb
A cat is nature's Beauty. - French Proverb
Buy a dog a toy and it will play with it forever. Buy a cat a present and it will play with the wrapper for 10 minutes.
When the cat's away, the mice will play. - Folk Saying
Here lies a pretty cat: its mistress, who never loved anyone, Loved it madly... - Epitaph on a cat's tombstone
The cat sees through shut eyes. - English Saying
Dogs remember faces, cats places. - English Saying
The dog for the man, the cat for the woman. - English Proverb
What greater gift than the love of a cat? - Charles Dickens
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb. - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889] from The Cat Past and Present
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. - Erasmus Darwin [1731-1802]
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
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[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
Puss, with delight beyond expression, Surveyed the scene and took possession. - William Cowper [1731-1800]
Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat. - Chinese Proverb
I gave an order to a cat, and the cat gave it to its tail. - Chinese Proverb
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk... - Geoffrey Chaucer [1342-1400]
[A kitten] gets himself into every kind of trouble... - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889]
He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889]
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal. - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889]
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889]
Such is one of those big-whiskered and well-furred tomcats, that you see quiet in a corner... sometimes giving himself to the pleasure of hunting, for the rest enjoying life peaceably. - Father Bongeant (fl. 18th century)
[Cats'] whiskers, seem to possess something like an additional sense; these have, perhaps, some analogy to the antennae of moths... - Rev. W. Bingley [1774-1823]
It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. - Bidpai
When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies. - Charles Baudelaire [1821-1867]
In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.. - Charles Baudelaire [1821-1867]
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. - Charles Baudelaire [1821-1867]
... cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household... - Charles Baudelaire [1821-1867]
When I'm in the doghouse, my cats still come to visit.
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats.
The cat remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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A day without cats is like a day without sunshine.
My cat's not spoiled... I'm just well trained.
... let me not forget that chairs were put on earth to shred; and what I like to call a lap is actually a cat-bed. - Author Unknown (from "I'm Only Human")
Every life should have nine cats.
If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.
Cats never strike a post that isn't photogenic.
Cats' whiskers are so sensitive, they can find their way through the narrowest crack in a broken heart.
CAT (N): 1. Furry Keyboard Cover. 2. Alarm Clock.
Cats don't have owners. They have caretakers!
Cats have incredible vision - but they never see your flaws.
Anything not nailed down is a cat toy.
A house is not a home without a cat.
A home is where the cat hair sticks to everything but the cat.
A cat's purr: Most effective stress medicine known.
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.
The cat was created when the lion sneezed. - Arabian Myth
A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. - Arthur Bridges
I understand now why the Egyptians worshipped cats: They had no choice! - Pooky
When life gets you down, a cat can pick you up!
Dogs vs. cats: A dog will run to greet you at the door. A cat will say, "Oh, have you been out?" - Sandy Parkinson
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Cats are smarter than dogs. If you throw a stick, a cat will say, "You want it fetching, fetch it yourself!" - Sandy Parkinson
I'm a responsible cat owner. I know I am because my cats hold me responsible for everything that goes wrong in the house. - Sandy Parkinson
A day without cats is like a day without sunshine. - Unknown quote on a poster
If cats didn't fight, we'd be neck-deep in kittens. - Sandy Parkinson
According to and old European folk tale, when cats were first created they had wings, but they preyed on birds and threatened them with extinction. So God took away their cat wings, though he turned their flutter into a purr, reminding kittens of the time and form which they were most content.
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels. - George Sand [1804-1876]
If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. - Dick Shawn [1923-1987]
Cats are very special angels, but they're not angelic. Watch what happens when a flock of birds fly by, beneath the clouds. - Elizabeth Hubbard Hall
Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels. - Mel Brooks
God allows cats in heaven just so he can keep an eye on them. - Dixie Carter
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne [1828-1905]
If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?
It isn't necessary for cats to have wings and a halo to be thought of as angels. Most cats achieve seraphic virtue through the love they give. Authors, Poets, and essayists have described this pure, God-given affection in many ways. Is there a place in heaven for cats? Some authors are convinced of it!
God is probably a cat person after a day of listening to supplicants try to please him, he probably wouldn't want a dog around. - John Ritter [1948-2003]
A cats idea of heaven would be mice from wall to wall. A mouse's view of heaven would be no cats there at all. - Andrea Stempel
If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement. - Sergio Aragones
Who can believe there is no soul behind those luminous eyes. - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
If cats were allowed in heaven wouldn't we see all these tails hanging down? - Diane Albright
A cat can't enter Heaven or Hell unless it has used all of its nine lives. - American Folklore
If God created animal angels, they would probably be dogs. Cats would consider it a demotion. - Linda Marrow
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The Chinese philosopher Confucius owned a cat and always kept it by his side. He apparently believed that the cat was sent from heaven to serve as a conduct for divine wisdom.
A house is not a home without a cat. - Beth Campbell
Cats are like potato chips, you can't just have one... - Kathy Hassell-Strom
How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein [1907-1988]
Cats... never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. - Lillian Jackson Braun
Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat? - Robert Stearns
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. - Carl Van Vechten
In these days of tension, human beings can learn a great deal about relaxation from watching a cat, who doesn't just lie down when it is time to rest, but pours his body on the floor and rests in every nerve and muscle. - Murray Robinson
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. - Dr. Louis J. Camuti
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats. - Aldous Huxley
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. - Joan Asper McIntosh
I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that. - Patricia McPherson
Our words should be purrs instead of hisses. - Kathrine Palmer Peterson
To me, the best holistic remedy for high blood pressure, is a purring cat on your lap. - Kathrine Palmer Peterson
I always find it curious as to why I take such great pains to keep my cat's dishes clean when I know I'll look out the window and see her happily carrying a dead mouse in her mouth. - Fannie Roach Palmer
Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire. - Khiem Tran
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. - George Will
Intelligence in the cat is underrated. - Louis Wain [1860-1939]
CAT (n): 1. Furry keyboard cover; 2. Alarm clock.
A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human.
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If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself.
I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? FEED US NOW! - Sylvia Townsend
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? - Henry David Thoreau
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. - Lewis Thomas
Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetes, and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for. - Bernard Taper
Nothing makes a house cozier than cats. - Gladys Taber
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare. - Joyce Stranger
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
...this mysterious, mystical bundle of fur that won't come when you call it. - John Reynolds
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. - Agnes Repplier
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. - Helen Powers
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. - William Lyon Phelps
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. - Elizabeth Peters
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. - Jane Pauley
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. - Aldous Huxley
New Cats are under warranty from the manufacturer: Six Years or 100,000 meows, whichever comes first. - Bill Mason
Cats sleep fat and walk thin. - Rosalie Moore
Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes? - Fernand Mery
Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there. - Andrew Mercer
She will attempt nothing that she cannot do well. - K. C. McIntosh
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. - Sir Comptom MacKenzie
If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr. - Karla Kuskin
A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it. - Italian Superstition
Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know. - Lynn Holly
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff
Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority. - Marion Garretty
She moved through the garden in glory, because She had very long claws at the end of her paws. - Richard Garnett [1835-1906]
Nothing's more playful than a young cat... - Thomas Fuller
Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. - Dutch Proverb
Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore. - Sidney Denham
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. - Jim Davis
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. - Robertson Davies
By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. - Colette
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. - Jules Champfleury [1821-1889]
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. - Miguel de Cervantes [1547-1616]
In the night all cats are gray. - Miguel de Cervantes [1547-1616]
We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats. - Roger Caras
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. - William Seward Burroughs
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. - Gwendolyn Brooks
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Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. - Stephen Baker
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds. - Eve Babitz
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: When fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. - John Weitz
You mean my granddaughter is a cat? - Sarah Rouhan
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration -- and get between you and it. - Arthur Bridges
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company. - Lloyd Alexander
Cats run on friction, not batteries - you pet, she purrs.
Cats are good at climbing stone walls, even the walls we build around ourselves.
When things go bump in the night, it's nice to know that it's just the cat, exploring the house.
I have found that the bigger the cat... the smaller the box he insists on getting into! - Iowa Pat
A home without a cat is only a house.
I am devoted to the study of cat bathing as a martial art.
Cats keep their claws sharp because they know that just a purr may not be enough.
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
Cats make life a little sweeter.
The more people I meet, the more I like my cat.
Cats don't want to own people. They prefer to lease with an option.
When No One Else Cares... My Cat Still Loves Me!
Anything not nailed down is a cat toy.
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Skipping catnaps weakens your immune system.
Cats are a bundle of love wrapped in fur.
A positive cattitude rules the day!
Blessed are the PURR in Heart!
My CAT was born to be pampered.
Home is where the cat hair sticks to everything but the cat!
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. - George Will
If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward. - Barbara Holland
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness. - Thomas Henry Huxley
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr. - Sylvia Townsend Werner
Apparently, through scientific research, it has been determined that a cat's affection gland is stimulated by snoring, thus explaining my cat's uncontrollable urge to rub against my face at 2:00AM. - Terril Hanley
Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen. - Kathy Young
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days. - Albert Einsten
Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath. - Garfield
Does ownership of the family cat, and all its by-products, immediately transfer to the female head of the household whenever the word 'hairball' is uttered? - Barbara L. Diamond
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William. - Josh Billings
Cats spit on their hands and rub it all over their bodies.
With my cat, I don't need an alarm clock. I just wish I could figure out how to turn her off on the weekends.
The difference between Momma and Papa is that Momma loves morals and Papa loves cats. - Mark Twain's daughter, Susy
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep. - Saki
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. - Oliver Herford [1863-1935]
Amazing products, cats. And real simple to manufacture. - Michael O'Donoghue
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside. - Saki
With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats? - Fernand Mery
Nominative, cat. Vocative, puss. - Archbishop Whately
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave'. - Rudyard Kipling
Most cats have trained their owners. When the cat meows before the refrigerator, the owner obediently opens the door and feeds the cat. When it meows at the back door, the owner is trained to let the cat out. - Leon F. Whitney
I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one. The indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself, and arches her back responsively, but that is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see the more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand [1748-1848]
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. - James Gorman
I am a slave to my cats! Long live my cats. - Cheryl Daniels
A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of treacle and melted under the gate. - Elizabeth Lemarchand
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? - Michel Eygquem, seigneur de Montaigne [1533-1592]
[A cat's] Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
Blessed are those who love cats, for they shall never be lonely.
Even with nine lives, cats are never with us long enough.
God must have been pleased with the creation of cats. After all, He gave them nine lives.
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world. - Leonard Michaels
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Oh heaven will not ever Heaven be, Unless my cats are there to welcome me. - Author Unknown, Epitaph in a pet cemetary
Mother Nature set her jewels in the eyes of cats.
Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - Walter Lionel George
Your first cat's job is to train you well for all the others who will follow.
Home is where the cat is.
The beauty of silence is not lost on a cat.
A stray cat is a friend I haven't met yet.
Your secret is always safe with a cat.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there. - Agnes Repplier
In his castle He is King And I his vassal... - Mildred R. Howland
Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun. - Lloyd Alexander
There is no "cat language". Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! - Barbara Holland
The internet was invented specifically for displaying pictures of one's cat.
A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? - Mark Twain
If dogs can smell fear, cats can smell stupidity. - Steve Warren
Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats.
When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby. - Nigerian Proverb
Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. - Paul Corey
For every cute kitten picture, there are zillions that never were taken. - Karen Anderson
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Garfield's Law: Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken ... then they awaken them ten minutes sooner. - Jim Davis
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. - W. C. Fields
Cats whiskers are so sensitive, they can find their way through the narrowest crack in a broken heart.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission. The kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. - Saki
The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat." - Elmer Davis
If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. - African Proverb
We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. - St. George Mivart
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. - Lynn M. Osband
Cats come and go without ever leaving. - Martha Curtis
In my house lives a cat who is a curmudgeon and cantankerous, a cat who is charming and convivial, and a cat who is combative and commendable. And yet I have but one cat. - Dave Edwards
Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. - John Dingman
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Monica Edwards
The cat could very well be man's best friend, but he would never stoop to admit it. - Doug Larson
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. - George Mikes
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. - Dan Greenburg
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. - Jerome K. Jerome
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. - Penny Ward Moser
After dark, all cats are leopards. - Zuni Native American Proverb
Never *ever* try to baptize a cat.
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A cat knows your every thought. It doesn't care, but it knows.
If I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I will put shoes on my cat.
Most people with cats, know they are being controlled. That's the horror of it...
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
I prefer to live with Feline Sapiens, thank you very much.
I think that the best of the best Angels get to trade in their harps and halos for fur & whiskers. They've been sent here by The Powers That Be to look after us and teach us about perfect, truly unconditional love. - Vicky Chapman
Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers - they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama, the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo. - James Gorman
There are two escapes from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
With velvet paws and shining eyes they steal into our hearts...
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. - Dan Greenberg
As I am delivering seven plates of breakfast to the two dogs and five cats at their various eating stations all over our three-storey house, I usually just say, quite honestly, "Hi, my name is Melissa and I will be your waitress for the day." - Melissa McIvor
A drowsy winter evening is never quite drowsy enough without a sleeping cat.
A cat isn't fussy, just so long as you remember that he likes his milk from the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the plate, from which he will take it and eat it off the floor.
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. - Thomas Fuller [1608-1661]
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
If a cat has decided to love you, there's not a great deal you can do about it.
Cats allow us to love them, for which we should be duly grateful.
You don't train cats, they train you.
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A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, a cat is a person.
Cats could have ruled the universe but couldn't be bothered.
Cat food manufacturers haven't yet cottoned on to the fact that what cats really like is bolognaise sauce, cheese, ice-cream, potato crisps and anything Cordon Bleu.
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur coated musical hot water bottles that never grow cold.
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
Given a house full of carpets, shelves, cushions, chairs, window sills, any cat will choose to sleep on the document you are using.
Her function is to sit and be admired. - Georgina Strickland Gates
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house, to coming home.
The ultimate dream of a cat: food that will pet you while you're eating it! - Richard L. Summer
In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me." - Lowell Thomas
A cat has nine lives and nine souls, and it must have nine guardian angels watching over it. Which would explain why the little fellow is so smug. - Karen Fields-Hutton
When cats die, they pass through the Purrrrly Gates. - Catwoman
God allows cats into Heaven just so He can keep an eye on them. - Dixie Carter
Some say cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us, cats are angels. - George Sand [1804-1876]
Thou are the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy circle. - Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. - Dick Shawn [1923-1987]
Peter said, "There is one thing I know'st, among cat angels highest and low'st. They arrive, don their wings, then of all wicked things, use my Gates as their new scratching post!" - St. Peter's Lament
Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels. - Mel Brooks
Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. - Lillian Johnson
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A cat will assume the shape of its container.
If you want the best seat in the house, move the cat.
It's the cat's house. We just pay the mortgage.
My dog thinks he's human.. My cat thinks he's GOD!
One fact that never remains hidden from cats is the sentiment a person holds towards them.
If we could talk to the animals, the longest waiting line would be for the cat.
Cats make their demands with such cunning that we respond to them as if they had made polite requests.
Cats regard humans as warm-blooded furniture.
A cat is an attitude with fur.
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience. - Allen & Ivy Dodd
It is a very inconvenient of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr. - Lewis Carroll [1832-1898] [1832-1898]
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. - Henry David Thoreau
He shut his eyes while Saha [the cat] kept vigil, watching all the invisible signs that hover over sleeping human beings when the lights are put out. - Colette
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
God has created the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France (1844-1924)
A true cat lover cradles a new kitten and knows that nine lives will never be nearly enough.
Heaven ... would have to be a place lined with cat bellies. - L. F. Hoffman
After scolding one's cat one looks into it's face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it has understood every word. And has filed it for reference. - Charlotte Gray
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Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience. - Michael Stevens
Cats don't mind sharing the bed with fellow cats, as long as the area is equitably divided among them. Usually there is room for everyone on a first-come-first-served basis - under the blanket, on top of the blanket, on the pillow, under the pillow, at the head of the bed, at the foot of the bed, in that order. Any space left over goes to the owner. - Stephen Baker
A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge. - Jenny de Vries
. . . Cats only occupy space and think about three things: food, sex and nothing. If they're neutered that leaves food. - Penny Ward Moser
Cats do care: For example, they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. - Michael Nelson
You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can? - Pam Brown
A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens. - Pam Brown
You can feel an awful fool standing at the bottom of the garden yelling pussy, pussy, pussy across a totally deserted meadow. Especially when you realise that pussy, pussy, pussy is watching you, with benign interest, from the shelter of the garden shed. - Marcia Fischer
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their natural lives. - Stephen Baker
We have a cat that doesn't even bother to run after mice. She just lies around waiting for the gold-fish bowl to break. - from "Laugh-a-Minute"
Cats have led us every step of the way. Teaching us the importance of unconditional love, and the value of a really good afternoon nap.
A kitten is more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with. - Lady Sydney Morgan [1783-1859]
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. - A.S.J. Tessimond
The cat does not negotiate with the mouse. - Robert K. Massie
It's said in publishing that no cat book ever loses money. Maybe it's true: bibliophiles tend to be ailurophiles, and both are tenacious breeds. - Emily Toth
Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. - Sidney Denham
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. - William S. Burroughs
Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat. - The Ancren Riewle (The Nun's Rule)
Cats are designated friends. - Norman Corwin
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A cat may look at a king. - English Proverb
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering, outspoken, honest fellow -- but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Colette
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. - Bruce Schimmel
Of all animals, he alone attains the Contemplative Life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. There is no pretense of sympathy about the cat. He lives alone, aloft, sublime, in a wise passiveness. - Andrew Lang
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. - Eleanor Farjeon
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! - Theophile Gautier [1811-1872]
I suspect that many an ailurophobe hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is -- more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not. - Winifred Carriere
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. - Doris Lessing
Even if you have just destroyed a Ming vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven. - Lenny Rubenstein
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson
To err is human, To purr is feline. - Robert Byrne
Because his long white whiskers tickled, I began every day laughing. - Janet F. Faure
Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats. - Carl Van Vechten
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk -- there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. - Sir Walter Scott
Even ugly cats are cute. - G. Phillips
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, "Hey, I don't see the problem here." - Roy Blount, Jr.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln
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Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. - Eleanor Clark
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. - Barbara Holland
When she walked ... she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were threading the jungle. - Sarah Orne Jewett [1849-1909]
Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. - Maurice Burton
A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. - Yakaoka Genrin
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo da Vinci
Sure, it's clean laundry. The cat's sleeping on it, isn't he?
To a cat,"NO!" means "Not while I'm looking."
Anything not nailed down is a cat toy.
The difference between a cat and a dog is that a cat can bark .... and doesn't.
When dogs leap onto your bed it's because they adore being close to you. When cats leap onto your bed it's because they adore your bed.
If you call a cat and it comes running, what you have is a dog.
Dogs teach you how to love. Cats teach you how to live.
Cats are dogs with a college education.
And thou shall have dominion over all the beasts... except, of course, for cats. - Felines: 4 - 17
I just gave the cat a bath. It took forever to get all that hair off of my tongue! - Steve Martin
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. - Cleveland Amory
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike -- they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share. - John Updike
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I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic.
My husband said it was him or the cat ... I miss him sometimes.
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat. - Jay Leno
A cat has absolute emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor
A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays. - English Proverb
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. - Indian Proverb
The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. - Spanish Proverb
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. - Dave Platt
For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort. - Compton MacKenzie
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled and it makes a sound when you jump on it. - Stephen Baker
Cats are love on four legs. - Richard Torregrossa
Cats don't like change without their consent. - Roger A. Caras
A home without cats is like a garden without flowers.
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer. - Bruce Graham
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
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If it's not tied down, it's a cat toy.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly
If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. - Arthur Weigall
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
Cats love cat haters because cat haters don't pick them up and talk baby talk to them as they cuddle, pet, and squeeze the life out of them. Cats particularly like people who are to them because then they can rub against their legs without being bothered. Don't bother to pretend you like cats to keep them away; they can tell. - Andrew Frothingham & Tripp Evans
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. - Martin Buxbaum
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. - Ernest Menault
If a cat does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. - Will Cuppy
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. - Louis J. Damuti, D.V.M.
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - Missy Dizick
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb
Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Colette
The cat lets Man support her. But unlike the dog, she is no handlicker. Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun. - Vance Packard
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. - Paula Poundstone
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch
One cat just leads to another. - Ernest Hemingway
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. - Colonial American Proverb
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. - Winifred Carriere
If cats could talk, they wouldn't. - Nan Porter
A cat can purr its way out of anything. - Donna McCrohan
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch
There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
When it comes to the advantages of cats versus dogs as pets, there is no competition. Try going away for a weekend, leaving your German Shepherd alone with a bowl of dry food, some water, and a litter box... - Robert Stearns
Dogs will drop everything and come when you call. Cats check their schedule and fit you in.
People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. - Faith Resnick
Dogs have Masters, Cats have Staff.
Cats and women will do as they please.... dogs and men should relax and get used to it. - Robert A. Heinlein
A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do. - Bill Adler
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives? - Louis J. Damuti, D.V.M.
No outfit is complete without cat hair.
Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses. - Edward Topsell
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. - Robert Southey
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