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Cat Quotes
"You
can't help that. We're all mad here." - The
Cheshire Cat from "No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." -Mark Twain "With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -Hippolyte Taine Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. -John Dobbin Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats! -Michelle Gardner Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner. - Gary Smith Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say. - Matt Groening, 1993 God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. - Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... - T.S. Eliot The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. - Michael McGarel We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. - Megan Coughlin When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne You
can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five
hundred, it all looks the same. - Jack
Wright (of You
see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in "After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."- Charlotte Gray "A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."- George Mikes "You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."- George Mikes "You own a dog but you feed a cat."- Jenny de Vries "Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick "One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."- Helen Thomson "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." -Anonymous "A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."-Sarah Thompson "Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."- Paul Gray "One must love a cat on its own terms."- Paul Gray "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her entertainment value. - Geoffrey Household If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer. - A. N. Whitehead Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? - Fernand Mery When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? -Montaigne There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. -Dan Greenberg No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. - Leo Dworken Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. - Roger Caras Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. - George F. Will Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. - Barbara Holland A meow massages the heart. - Stuart McMillan 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 If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. - Martin Buxbaum Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. - Winifred Carriere 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 There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. - P. G. Wodehouse Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. -Stephen Baker Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. -Jean Burden The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. - Lynn M. Osband Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. - James Mason Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. - Hank Ketchum Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - Missy Dizick As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - W. L. George 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 kind. - Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. - Eleanor Clark 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 lives. - Stephen Baker A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo da Vinci There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. - Sir Harry Swanson There are no ordinary cats. - Colette A
cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. - William
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