Cat Quotes
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
~ Carl Van Vechten |
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 | Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~ Robertson Davies | Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
~ James Herriot | Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
~ W. L. George | I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~ Jules Verne | I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
~ Bill Dana | I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
~ Hippolyte Taine | There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer | 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 | There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone. ~Louis J. Camuti | A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~William Ralph Inge | A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden | 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 | There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. ~Jules Champfleury | 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 | I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~Edgar Allan Poe | You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb | In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett | The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki | What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens | Before a cat will condescend | To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream. ~T.S. Eliot Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. ~George F. Will | There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown | There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. ~Dan Greenberg | 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 | The trouble with a kitten is that | Eventually it becomes a cat. ~Ogden Nash It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. ~Eleanor Farjeon | You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes | Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson | Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~May Sarton | 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 | One cat just leads to another. ~Ernest Hemingway | 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, "Miao" | “The cat has too much spirit to have no heart”
Ernest Menaul quotes | “When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley | “Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?”
Louis Camuti | In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
-English Proverb | Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.
-Charles Baudelaire | The smallest feline is a masterpiece.~ Leonardo DaVinci | We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
-H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
In a letter to James F. Morton, December, 1926 | "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" | Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." Terry Pratchett, Sourcery |
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