Cats Quotes

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

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

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.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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.

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.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

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

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

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.

The cat is above all things, a dramatist

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

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

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

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

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

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.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

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

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and you gentlemen, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.