"If there are no cats in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they go." -- Will Rogers --
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.." -- Anatole France --
"I put down my book, The Meaning
of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it
with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but
it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full
gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs. I wrote it." --Dilys
Laing
"A cat can purr its way out of anything." --Donna
McCrohan
"Happiness does not light gently
on my shoulder like a butterfly. She pounces on my lap, demanding that I
scratch behind her ears." --Anonymous
"Cats are like greatness; Some people are born into
cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and others have cats thrust upon
them." --William H.A. Carr
The more people I meet the
more I like my cat."
--Anonymous
"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've met many thinkers and many
cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely
superior."
--Hippolyte Taine
"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
"If cats could talk, they
wouldn't."
--Nan Porter
"There are no ordinary
cats."
--Colette
"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
"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
"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
"Cats know how to obtain food
without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without
penalties."
--W.L. George
"There is, indeed, no single
quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his
advantage."
--Carl Van Vechten
"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
"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
"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
"The little furry buggers are
just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into."
--Bruce
Schimmel
"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.
"The smart cat doesn't let on
that he is."
--H. G. Frommer
"In ancient times cats were
worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten
this."
--Unknown
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"His amiable amber eyes
Are
very friendly, very wise;
Like Buddha, grave and fat,
He sits,
regardless of applause,
And thinking, as he kneads his paws,
What
fun to be a cat!" --Christopher Morley
"If a fish is the movement of
water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle
air." --Doris Lessing
"There are no ordinary
cats." --Colette
"A sleeping cat is ever alert." --Fred
Schwab
"If you want to be a
psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you
can do is own a pair of cats." --Aldous Huxley
"Even overweight cats
instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses." --John Weitz
"The only mystery about the cat
is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal." --Sir Compton
Mackenzie
"A cat determined not to be
found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants
to." --Dr. Louis J. Camuti
"Since each of us is blessed
with only one life, why not live it with a cat?" --Robert
Stearns
"If man could be crossed with
the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." --Mark
Twain
"A cat has too much spirit to
have no heart." --Ernest Menault
"You can't look at a sleeping
cat and be tense." --Jane Pauley
"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless,
seems to flow." --George Will
"The cat pretends to sleep that
it may see the more clearly." --Chateaubriand
"The idea of calm exists in a
sitting cat." --Jules Reynard
"There are many intelligent
species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."
--Anonymous
"There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life: music and cats." --Albert
Schweitzer
"Time spent with cats is never
wasted." --Colette
"Cats like their doors left open
- in case they change their minds." --Rosemary Nisbet
"Cats are a mysterious kind of
folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."
--Sir Walter Scott
"Thousands of years ago, cats
were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
--Anonymous
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You
can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow." --Jeff
Valdez
"As every cat owner knows,
nobody owns a cat." -- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"I have studied many
philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely
superior." --Hippolyte Taine
"You will always be lucky if you
know how to make friends with strange cats." --Colonial American
proverb
"Cats are intended to teach us
that not everything in nature has a function." --Garrison
Keillor
"When a cat adopts you, there is
nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the
wind changes." --T.S. Eliot
"The little furry buggers are
just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into." --Bruce
Schimmel
"A cat pours its body on the
floor like water. It is restful just to see him." --William Lyon
Phelps
"They are the most graceful,
sinuous, sexy, truly sensuous creatures in the world." --Carol
Lawrence
"The cat is a puzzle for which
there is no solution." --Hazel Nicholson
"If cats could talk, they
wouldn't." --Nan Porter
"The thing about cats, as you
may find, is that no one knows what they have in mind." --John
Ciardi
"Women should set themselves
forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a
presentation, but an innocent happening." --Alwin
Nikolais
"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
"Cats, no less liquid than their
shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat,
through loopholes
Less them themselves." -- A.S.J. Tessimond
--
"What sort of philosophers are
we who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of
cats?" --Henry David Thoreau
"All cats are possessed of a
proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to
treat him as an inferior being." --Michael
Joseph
"The cat. He walked by himself,
and all places were alike to him." --Rudyard Kipling
"Drowsing, they take the noble
attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming
dreams that have no end." --Charles Baudelaire
"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
"When I play with my cat, how do
I know that she is not passing time with me, rather than I with
her." --Montaigne
"Cats were put into the world to
disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."
--Paul Gray
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Cat Quotes - A Cat
Quote for all Occasions
Dogs have owners, cats have
staff.
(Unknown)
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
Of all God's creatures there is only one
that cannot be made the slave of the leash.
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
Cats seem to go on the principle that it
never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood
Krutch
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
There is, incidently, no way of talking
about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan
Greenberg
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
Cats are intended to teach us that not
everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor
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
Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow
the human voice to easily go in one ear
and out the other.
Stephen
Baker
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 unfailingly ingenious
in that
respect.
James Mason
How we behave toward cats here below
determines our status in heaven.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Cleveland Amory
A cat has absolute emotional honesty:
human beings, for one reason or another, may
hide their feelings, but a cat
does not.
Ernest Hemingway
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