Cat Quotes

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There is something about the presence of a cat

.. that seems to take the bite out of being alone. ~Louis J. Camuti

Before a cat will condescend

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By walking slowly

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Eventually it becomes a cat

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Is needed, like a dish of cream

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No heaven will not ever Heaven be

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Past my chair

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Some little token of esteem

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The trouble with a kitten is that

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There has never been a cat

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To treat you as a trusted friend,

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Unless my cats are there to welcome me

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What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens

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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580

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Who couldn't calm me down

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~Author Unknown

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~Ogden Nash

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~Rod McKuen

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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth

A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ~Jules Verne

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

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

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

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

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights

His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. ~Carl Van Vechten

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

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

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult

It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana

~T

S. Eliot

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

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. ~Lloyd Alexander

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats

The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine

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

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel

True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ~Missy Dizick

Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr

Usually all will be forgiven. ~Lenny Rubenstein

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

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming

~Adlai Stevenson

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more

~Agnes Repplier

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats

~Albert Schweitzer

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope

~Arab Proverb

Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker

~Astrid Alauda

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization

~Author Unknown

Kittens are angels with whiskers

~Author Unknown

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast

~Author Unknown

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city

~Carl van Vechten

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree

~Colette

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens

~Cynthia E. Varnado

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person

~Dan Greenberg

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

~Dan Greenburg

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him

~Dereke Bruce

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it

~Doug Larson

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat

~Edgar Allan Poe

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat

~Ellen Perry Berkeley

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion

~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life

~Faith Resnick

Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length

~Frank Perkins

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose

~Garrison Keillor

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow

~George F. Will

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity

~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city

~Italo Calvino

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up

~J.A. McIntosh

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem

~Jean Burden

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds

~Jean Burden

You own a dog but you feed a cat

~Jenny de Vries

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it

~Joseph Epstein

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

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want

~Joseph Wood Krutch

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather

~Judith Merkle Riley

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten

~Jules Champfleury

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat

~Jules Reynard

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds

~K.C. Buffington

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats

~Lemony Snicket

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

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously

~Louis J. Camuti

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much

~Mark Twain

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way

~Mark Twain

Cats come and go without ever leaving

~Martha Curtis

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later

~Mary Bly

When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness

~Missy Altijd

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow

~Monica Edwards

If cats could talk, they wouldn't

~Nan Porter

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience

~Pam Brown

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort

~Paul Corey

Kittens can happen to anyone

~Paul Gallico

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer

~Paula Poundstone

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan

~Proverb

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats

~Proverb

My cat speaks sign language with her tail

~Robert A. Stern

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons

~Robertson Davies

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 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.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends

~Saki

People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around

~Susan Easterly

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

~Susan Howatch

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat

~Tay Hohoff

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this

~Terry Pratchett

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat

~Wesley Bates

A cat pours his body on the floor like water

~William Lyon Phelps

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings

~William Ralph Inge


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