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Cat Quotes
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer. - Colette
Cats are designated friends. - Norman Corwin
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. - Oliver Herford
Thou art 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; thou art indeed ... the Great Cat. - Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent. - Ann Morrow Lindbergher
To err is human, to purr is feline. - Robert Byrne
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" - Samuel Butler
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
Cats don't like change without their consent. - Roger A. Caras
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. - Carl Van Vechten
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley
If cats could talk, they wouldn't. - Nan Porter
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Monica Edwards
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. - Joseph Epstein
There are no ordinary cats. - Colette
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. - George Will
God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger. - Fernand Mery
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 a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. - Ernest Menaul
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. - Stephen Baker
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. Camuti, DVM
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - Missy Dizick
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. - George F. Will
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson
As we all know, cats now rule the world. - John R.F. Breen
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - W.L. George
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch
How to get a cat out of a tree?
1.) Some will profess to do nothing - the cat will come down in its own sweet time. However, with whining children and mother gnashing her teeth this is a difficult approach.
2.) I found a good ladder properly supported works well. The main trick is to climb the ladder without thinking about the cat, for they can read your mind, and if they realize how terrified you are they will only go higher in the tree (see #1). I found thinking about the quantum nature of the universe quite helpful, and in fact, the cat climbed onto my shoulder; we have been the best of friends ever since. - Cats Cradle
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his
advantage. - Carl Van Vechten
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. - Theophile Gautier
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch
It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat. - Anonymous
Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations. - Irving Townsend
Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. - John Dingman
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
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. - William Shakespeare, Henry IV
Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression... - Beverly Nichols
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of 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
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
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
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot
Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger. - Eleanora Walker
The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. - P.G. Wodehouse
Cats must have three names - an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name. - T.S. Eliot
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. - Bruce Schimmel
Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat. - The Ancren Riewle (Nun's Rule)
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 treading the jungle. - Sarah Orne Jewett
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! - Theophile Gautier
When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? - Michel de Montaigne
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 Einstein
It is with the approach of winter that cats ... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. - Pierre Loti
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, "Hey, I don't see the problem here." - Roy Blount, Jr.
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. - Jim Davis
The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. - H. G. Frommer
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed ... she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. - Leonore Fleisher
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. - Doris Lessing
The Dog gives himself the Airs of a Cat. - Sir Richard Steele
You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you. - Helen Powers
Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place. - Lynn Hollyn
Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. - Robert Sterns
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 S. Burroughs
Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetés and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for. - Bernard Taper
I have as companion a big greyish-red cat with black stripes across it. It was born in the Vatican, in the Raphael Ioggia. Leo XII brought it up in a fold of his robes where I had often looked at it enviously when the Pontiff gave me an audience... It was called "the Pope's cat." In this capacity, it used to enjoy the special consideration of pious ladies. I am trying to make it forget exile, the Sistine Chapel, the sun on Michelangelo's cupola, where it used to walk, far above the earth. - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier
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