Quotes about cats
Peter Kreeft -
Cats don't need to be possessed they're evil on their own.
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Women and cats do what they do there is nothing a man can do about it
Mary Bly -
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you later.
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger the cat was not
Mark Twain -
Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
Joey Lawsin -
It is inhuman to humanize animals it is like raising a child in a cage.
Salman Rushdie -
From birds she learned how to sing from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.
Ray Palla - SIMPLE TRIPLE STANDARD
Regaring Politics: You’ve got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. —Kinky Friedman
Kristin Cast -
cats choose us we don't own them
Mark Twain - Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
It is easy to make plans in this world even a cat can do it and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Let the cats rule the world first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!
Michelle Branch -
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
Paula Poundstone -
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.
Richard Preston -
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
Neil Gaiman - Coraline
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.
George Carlin -
Meow” means “woof” in cat.
Garrison Keillor -
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Robert A. Heinlein -
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
Kendare Blake - Anna Dressed in Blood
You fuck - you ate my cat!
Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
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.
Charles Dickens -
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Albert Schweitzer -
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Orhan Pamuk - The Museum of Innocence
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
Hippolyte Taine -
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
James Qualls - A Gathering of Dreams
Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.
May Sarton - The Fur Person
The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
Henry David Thoreau - Thoreau Journal 9
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
P.G. Wodehouse - A Wodehouse Bestiary
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.
Abraham Lincoln -
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Ally Carter -
'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
Robert Byrne - 548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
To err is human, to purr is feline.
Richelle Mead - Succubus Blues
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.
Erin Hunter - Code of the Clans
I wonder if he'll ever see the truth in my own heart: that, whatever Dustpelt says, however much Fireheart breaks the warrior code, I love him more that I could imagine loving any other cat. And if Fireheart knew, would he love me, too?- Sandstorm
Rachel Gibson - Tangled Up In You
Snowball?"It's white."Meow."It's so girly."This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"Your sister told me.
Ed Lynskey - Quiet Anchorage
Quote is taken from Chapter 1:A decade ago when Isabel’s husband Max had died, they’d moved in together and merged their possessions. Neither sister brought any fussy teapots, canaries, sachets, or doilies, but lots of other stuff had to either stay or go. Looking at the lime green gave Alma the willies. Her suggestion to slipcover it in a more subdued color had garnered Isabel’s frosty stare, and Alma had dropped the matter.
Gordon Korman - One False Note
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.""Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Maryam Faresh - Daisy
You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.
Tad Williams - Tailchaser's Song
Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.
Leviak B. Kelly - Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Through the imagination and the human sense of creativity, the book will examine not only raw clinical data but philosophical perspectives as well. As within many moral fables, animals will be used, at times, to convey a a fundamental truth of human nature. More simply stated, animals that elicit human empathetic responses, will be examined in a religious context. So, starting with cats, dogs and ultimately other primates, as moral experiments of imagination, we can perhaps understand differing
Neil Gaiman - Coraline
We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
R.L. LaFevers - Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh
I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
Erin Hunter -
A breeze stirred Dovewing's pelt, as is someone had walked past. She lifted her head an saw two figures standing just beyond her Clanmates. One was a badger with a narrow, striped face, the other a grotesque, hairless cat who's blind, bulging eyes saw nothing but everything. They met her gaze and nodded, just once. "Thank you." Dovewing heard, quieter then a sigh. "There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle be
Tony-Paul de Vissage -
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
Michelle Franklin -
The absence of life is not the same as material privation: we will never again see the same soul occupying the same space. The world refers to them as pets, but that is what we do, not really what they are. Affection pays for itself in proportion to the love we offer, and if the love we lavished on him was any indication, we are inconsolable. The suffering is more on our side now, for he led an enormously happy and productive life, and we are left to remember and agonize. It is all wretchedness
Greg Curtis -
My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
Albert Camus - A Happy Death
The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are fierce, and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.
Richard Mabey - Nature Cure
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.
Mike Bond - The Last Savanna
Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.
Joy Harjo - Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jump.The panther is a poem of fire green eyes and a heart chargedby four winds of four directions.The panther hears everything in the dark: the unspokentears of a few hundred human years, storms that will breakwhat has broken his world, a bluebird swaying on a branch afew miles away.He hears the death song of his approaching
Julio Cortázar - Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
Rai Aren -
Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.
EsthersChild - It Takes A Cat
It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.
Eugen Weber -
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
The living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while death frees the mind from the straitjacket of three dimensions it also cuts it away from Time, which is only another dimension. So while the cat that rubbed up against his invisible legs was undoubtedly the same cat that he had seen a few minutes before, it was also quite clearly a tiny kitten and a fat, half-blind old moggy and every stage in between. All at once. Since it had started off small it
Lydia Sherrer - and Hocus Pocus: Revelations
He kept her company, listened patiently when she complained, and always made sure her clothes were thoroughly covered in cat hair. They were family. He was her cat; she was his human. It seemed crazy, but that was enough.
Akif Pirinçci - Felidae
Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold.
Michelle Tea - Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.
Will Advise - Nothing is here...
When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.
Brooke Burgess - The Cat's Maw
There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and
F.T. McKinstry - Water Dark
Love is whole. Love cannot be divided from itself. Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.
Leah Broadby - A Dreadful Daughter's Spells
If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!
H.P. Lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvelous golden spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the southern gate, and was stopped by a red-robed sentry till he had told three dreams beyond belief, and proved himself a dreamer worthy to walk up Thran's steep mysterious streets and linger in the bazaars where the wares of the ornate galleons were sold. Then into that incredible city he walked; through a wall so thi
Erin Forbes - Fire & Ice: The Elementals
It would seem very silly to start a conversation with a common hedgehog. They are not at all like cats, who surely understand the human language.
Jean Lowe Carlson -
AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!
Munia Khan -
Even a heart of a kitten is reliable, if you know how to rely on
Zac Bissonnette - The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
You can make a lot of money with a good cat." -Ty Warner
Robertson Davies -
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Marge Piercy - Braided Lives
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The sou
Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog
Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.
Adam Rex - Cold Cereal
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Jeff Valdez -
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Ellen Hart - Hallowed Murder
Last time I saw her, she was peeking out from one of the bookcases next to the fireplace. She's the first cat I've ever seen trying to pretend she's a condensed version of War and Peace.
Francesco Marciuliano - I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats
You can't hold someone whoWants to leaveYou can't clutch a memoryAs if it were todayYou can't take an insultClose to heartYou can't grasp for gloryFrom your chairYou can't seize lifeThinking only of lossAnd you can't grab a laser pointer dotOn the wallNo matter how much you tryThese hard-earned truths I give to you
Shannon Hale - Book of a Thousand Days
My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.
Connie Fletcher - Every Contact Leaves a Trace
We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because they haven't been fed in that period. So your evidence is being chewed up by the family pet.I tell you - Dogs are more loyal than cats. Cats will wait only a certain period of time and they'll start chewing on you. Dogs will wait a day or two before they just can't take the starving anymore. So, keep that in mind when choosing a
Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Playe
Dogs have their day but cats have 365.
Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage
The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.
Melinda K. Trotter - Spice Cat Wishes for a Buddy
That weekend my people brought home a big eared gray scrawny kit.He was so loud and annoying that I did not like him one bit.
T.S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, like a dish of cream;And you might now and then supplySome caviare, or Strassburg Pie,Some potted grouse, or salmon paste —He's sure to have his personal taste.(I know a Cat, who makes a habitOf eating nothing else but rabbit,And when he's finished, licks his pawsSo's not to waste the onion sauce.)A Cat's entitled to expectThese evidences of respect.And so in time you reach your aim,And finally cal
William S. Burroughs - Last Words: The Final Journals
You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.
Stefanie Samek - Purring in the Light: Near-Death Experiences of Cats
We've heard that you don't need a near-death experience to see Guardians. Just be more wide awake when you dream.
Colette -
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name
Erin Hunter - The First Battle
She will not die today. I won't let her.
Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy: A Memoir
My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over with feminist legfur. Cats would have abortions, if given half a chance. Cats would have abortions for fun. Consequently our own soft sinner, a soulful snowshoe named Alice, will stay shut in the bedroom upstairs, padding back and forth on cashmere paws, campaigning for equal pay, educating me about my reproductive system, and generally plotting the downfall of all men
Argus Flich - J.K.Rowling
My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment!
Thekla Clark -
John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats.
Amy Petrie Shaw - The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings
Dippy sniffs box. Dippy cannot comprehend challenging concepts such as "inside" and "outside"- attempts to balance on folded box edge.Dippy falls off box. Box flips over onto Dippy.As Shakespeare would say "There were then divers alarums and great shriekings as of demons or small children under the age of three.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn -
Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony — the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At the time of the incident, however, humor was not in my emotional repertoire; it was the furthest thing from my mind.
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside
We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.
Alastair Reid -
And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live, each has to do.