Cat Related Quotes - Part II~ Pawprints and Purrs

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Cat Quotes
Part II

Cats are living adornments. - Edwin Lent

I will always remember the olive-eyed tabby who taught me that not all relationships are meant to last a lifetime. Sometimes just an hour is enough to touch your heart. - Barbara L. Diamond

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him. - William Kunstler

No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail. - Rosalind Welcher

A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry. - Louis Wain

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one. - Allen Lacy

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. - Louis J. Camuti, DVM

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

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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
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

As one who has long been a pushover for cats, I should like to offer a packet of color-fast, preshrunk advice: If a stray kitten bounds out of nowhere when you're taking a walk, mews piteously, and rubs a soft shoulder against your leg, flee to the hills until the danger is over. - Murray Robinson

A meow massages the heart. - Stuart McMillan

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. - Anonymous

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. - Jules Champfleury

Such is one of those big-whiskered and well-furred tomcats, that you see quiet in a corner, digesting at his leisure, sleeping if it seems to him, sometimes giving himself to the pleasure of hunting, for the rest enjoying life peaceably, without being troubled by restless reflections, and little caring to communicate his thoughts to others. Truly it needs only that a female cat come on the scene to derange all his philosophy; but are our philosophers any wiser on such occasions? - Father Bougeant

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. - Stephen Baker

Kittens can happen to anyone. - Paul Gallico

The cat is utterly sincere. - Fernand Mery

If human, cats might play solitare, but they would never sit around with the gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. - Time Magazine, 12-7-81

Cats do not need to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailingly ingenious in that respect. - James Mason

Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. - Stephen Baker

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... - Robertson Davies

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. - William Conway

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels. - Louis A. Camuti, DVM

To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake. - Aileen Fisher

Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look a collection of knitting mistakes. - Eric Gurney

With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats? - Fernand Mery

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. - Doug Larson

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

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious. - Heinrich Heine

There is something about the presence of a cat ... that seems to take the bite of being alone. - Louis J. Camuti, DVM

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs... - Aldous Huxley, Sermon in Cats

The cat let 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

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people but tantamount to marriage with cats. - Marge Piercy

I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time. - Colette

It is in their eyes that their magic resides. - Arthur Symons

Oh, the cats in this town have their secrets. - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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. Tessamond

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

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. - Dan Greenburg

If only cats grew into kittens. - R. D. Stern

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind. - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand

I soon realized that Pouncer in no way did justice to her aerial skills. By the end of the first day I had amended her name to Kamikaze. - Cleveland Amory

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. - Desmond Morris

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

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. - Eleanor Clark

Catnip is vodka and whiskey 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

Because his long white whiskers tickled, I began laughing every day. - Janet F. Faure

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

"It's going to freeze," she would say, "the cat's dancing." - Colette

They sleep in the bed and go in and out of the cat door all night - I shudder to think what the laundry thinks we do to our sheets, because it's a sea of mud some nights. If they go in and out a lot all you get are little black pawprints. - Sian Phillips

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

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard

Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular - with some justification, unfortunately - consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce. - Lloyd Alexander

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when he saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect. - Lewis Carroll

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Collette

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. - Mary Bly

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf. - Roy Blount, Jr.

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