Cat Quotes
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"Even the smallest feline is a masterpiece." -- Leonardo DaVinci "A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather." -- Judith Merkle Riley "The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is
different." -- Hippocrates, physician Women and cats will do as they please and men and d*gs should relax and get used to the idea.-- Robert A. Heinlein
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.-- General knowledge
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Most people are just like cats in that if you rub them the right way, they will purr. But if you rub them the wrong way, they will bite and scratch. -- William Ross "The fingerprint of God is often a paw print." -- Susan McElroy "The wildcat is the "real" cat, the soul of the domestic cat; unknowable to human beings, he yet exists inside our household pets, who have long ago seduced us with their seemingly civilized ways." -- Joyce Carol Oates "The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron." -- George F. Will "The wildcat is the "real" cat, the soul of the domestic cat; unknowable to human beings, he yet exists inside our household pets, who have long ago seduced us with their seemingly civilized ways." -- Joyce Carol Oates "A cat pours his body on the floor like water
--William Lyon Phelps "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." -- Jules Verne
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man."
-- St. Francis of Assisi "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 mind." -- Cleveland Amory "Most cats, when they are out, want to be in, and vice versa, and often
simultaneously." -- Louis Camuti, DVM "Again I must remind you that a Dog's a Dog - a CAT'S a CAT." -- T. S. Eliot "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." -- Ernest Hemingway
"You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners."
--Sir Henry Swanson
"How you behave toward cats here below will determine your status in heaven."
-- Robert A. Heinlein in his book "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will p**s on your computer."
-- Bruce Graham
"While the rest of the human race are descended from monkeys, redheads derive from cats." -- Robert A. Heinlein
"Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission .. the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance."
-- Saki
"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
"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
-- Dave Platt
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
-- Anonymous
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
-- Jeff Valdez
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
-- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit." -- Christopher Smart (English Poet)
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
-- Unknown "A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him." -- William Lyon Phelps
"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
"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." -- Anonymous
"One cat just leads to another." -- Hemingway
"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
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -- Hippolyte Taine
"A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude." -- V. Champfleury
"When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you.
When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed."
-- V. Champfleury
"Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. --Dutch Proverb"
"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 "
"People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life." -- Faith Resnick
"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." -- Ernest Menaul
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." -- Missy Dizick
"I love cats because I enjoy my home, and little by little, they become its visible soul." -- Jean Cocteau (French poet and filmmaker)
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." -- Anonymous
"I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementally adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their suppertime. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes." -- Sylvia Townsend Warner (English writer)
"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 (Archbishop of Armagh)
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." -- Colette
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make
friends with strange cats." -- Colonial American Proverb
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." -- Joseph Wood Krutch
"Most flame wars on the Internet are started by cats who did not get what they wanted for supper."-- Bubbles the Cat
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion." -- Fernand Mery (French writer)
"Four little Persians, but one only looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts." -- George Freedley (American writer)
"Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems." -- Helen M. Winslow (American writer)
What is man without the beasts?
"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own life, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan."
-- Excerpted from "The Once Again Prince" in Separate Lifetimes by Irving Townsend, J.N. Townsend Pub., 1986
"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals. " --
"They are mystery incarnate
"I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets." -- Kinky Friedman
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
"May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep" -- Anonymous
"The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry." -- French Proverb
"Thoughts, prayers, and purrs to you..." Updated July 13, 2005
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
--Theophile Gautier
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man,
All things are connected.
-- Chief Seattle (Duwamish tribe)
These ethereal companions by our side.
Though ever independent, never fully known,
We are blessed to receive these envoys
Of the magic Tiger Tribe. " --