Top 46 Quotes About Cats And Humans
#1. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.
Dylan Evans
#2. Nakata never went into these conversations with cats expecting to be able to easily communicate everything. You have to anticipate a few problems when cats and humans try to speak to each other.
Haruki Murakami
#3. Most humans know better than to cross a wizard. A cat does not care.
F.T. McKinstry
#4. If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
#6. She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.
Lauren Willig
#7. Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
Deyth Banger
#8. Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.
Jean Craighead George
#9. Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.
Kristen Britain
#10. Humans, with the arrogance of a supposedly superior species (tell that to your cat!), expect domestic animals to fit into their lifestyle. They bring cats into their homes and expect them to follow a human timetable and human rules.
Celia Haddon
#11. Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
Doris Lessing
#12. Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.
Mason Cooley
#13. and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust.
James S.A. Corey
#14. I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.
Marge Piercy
#15. For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.
Nevada Barr
#16. (about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy!
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#17. He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.
Jim Butcher
#18. It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.
Bruce Fogle
#19. Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#20. Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.
Jon Evans
#21. Redford had read somewhere that cats brought their owners dead birds, rodents, and their own toys because they were trying to teach the stupid humans how to hunt, like they did with their own kittens. From the amount of toys Knievel had brought to him, the cat thought he was absolutely useless.
Robin Saxon
#22. humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.
Rita Mae Brown
#23. Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.
Terry Pratchett
#24. A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
Terry Brooks
#25. Throughout time, we, as cats, have been worshipped by lower beings such as humans. Nothing has changed.
Rosie Malezer
#26. humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#27. Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not.
Lisa Martin
#28. You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes
#29. This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
Hiro Mashima
#30. For her part, Amy Kev's Waffles with a passionate ferocity that she felt a little bit guilty about not being able to feel, most of the time, for humans. It probably helped that he was constantly doing cute shit and couldn't speak.
Emily Gould
#31. The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#32. The first thing was not to panic, because all panic does is escalate the problem. (This is the first mistake that people make in situations like this: the cats lose their pee and the humans lose their shit.)
Jackson Galaxy
#33. Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.
Elly Griffiths
#34. But cats are good at steering people. A miaow here, a purr there, a little gentle pressure with a claw . . . and Maurice had never had to think about it before. Cats didn't have to think. They just had to know what they wanted. Humans had to do the thinking. That's what they were for.
Terry Pratchett
#35. Cats hate doors for the opportun ities doors deny them to do exactly what they please, but they love them in equal measure, due to the opportunities they present to make humans their snivelling slaves.
Tom Cox
#36. I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.
Yasmine Surovec
#37. Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett
#38. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#39. After a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to take his rightful place in Littlemouse's arms and heard them all in the proper direction.
Jim Butcher
#40. Cats regard humans as warm blooded furniture.
C.L. Bevill
#41. Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.
Jim Butcher
#42. Animals are very spiritual creatures and have evolved to a higher plane than humans. Cola was honored with the position of Comforter. Usually that work goes to cats or ferrets...
Linda Joy Singleton
#43. This isn't a shortcut for humans!! It's a route for cats!!
Peach-Pit
#44. Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.
Julie Smith
#45. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.
Leviak B. Kelly
#46. All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.
Neil Gaiman
