Top 100 Quotes About Cats
#1. I have lived with several Zen masters
all of them cats.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. 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
#4. These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
Tippi Hedren
#5. You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.
Dave Barry
#7. If cats could drive, text and launch missiles, they would rule the world
Quasi
#8. I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?
Haruki Murakami
#9. Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.
Cheryl Hines
#10. I like cats ... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.
Jerome K. Jerome
#11. If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
Amy Hoggart
#12. Say - what is dead cats good for, Huck?" "Good for? Cure warts with.
Mark Twain
#13. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]
Marion Lennox
#14. [Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.
Katharine Hepburn
#15. Cats can get by without names. We go by smell, shape, things of this nature. As long as we know these things, there're no worries for us.
Haruki Murakami
#16. Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.
Rick Wakeman
#17. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.
Dylan Thomas
#18. I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose.
W. Bruce Cameron
#19. Oh, it isn't that I mind the glittering caste system," admitted Amory. "I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I've got to be one of them.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment is about: candles, dry ice, big hair, and the sort of synthesized chord progressions only achieved by a collapse at the keyboard.
Emma Brockes
#21. 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.
Richard Preston
#22. When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
John Heywood
#23. Given that there is every indication I'll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I'm dead, hopefully at the ripe old age of 98 like Grandma Sanders, an unreasonable number of cats seems to be the next logical step in my life.
Lindsey Stuffel
#24. Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats
John Naughton
#25. 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
#26. If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
Bruce Fogle
#27. My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
Greg Curtis
#28. It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.
Jack Finney
#29. The way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly.
Erin Morgenstern
#30. I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.
Justin Vernon
#32. In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.
Jim Davis
#33. IN WHICH THERE ARE MONSTERS AND CATS, WHICH IS TO SAY, VERY MUCH THE SAME THING
Jonathan L. Howard
#34. Live life to the fullest. It's too bad we're not cats ... we only have one life.
Nick Carter
#35. The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.
- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman
"On Cats
Bukowski
#36. 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
#37. That's the way cats are. They are never in a hurry to do anything for you, but they expect you to be in a hurry for them.
Bill Myers
#38. Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.
Jack Kerouac
#39. She loved so many things - cats, dogs, roses, people - that sometimes I wonder if she chose to be alone to best enjoy them all.
Kate Bolick
#40. Surely you realize," said Patience, "that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.
Scott Lynch
#41. Trust ShadowClan cats to get competitive about deaths they have watched.
Erin Hunter
#42. We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all.
William James
#43. Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause Wrinkles had an attitude. Most cats had attitudes, actually.
Karen Kingsbury
#44. I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
Aaron Lazar
#46. Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.
James Patterson
#47. Little cats who howl too loud get drowned in the canals," warned the fair-haired bravo. "Not if they have claws.
George R R Martin
#49. Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.
Jonathan Balcombe
#50. I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
#52. Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha
Jane Carroll
#53. Quite simply, I did not want to spend much time away from my cats.
Tom Cox
#54. We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Ron Reagan
#55. I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out - a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.
Junot Diaz
#56. I think this one's in the running for Ditzy Bride status. Not only does she want her MOH to walk her two Siamese cats down the aisle rather than carry a bouquet, but wants to include them on the guest list.
Nora Roberts
#58. Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.
Clarice Bryan
#59. [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.
James Goss
#60. I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.
William McNamara
#61. There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming.
Hans Holzer
#62. When the cats away, the mice will play.
Bob Marley
#64. He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.
S.A. Tawks
#65. Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur.
-Rock, Cats of the Clans
Erin Hunter
#66. Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.
Michael Mewshaw
#67. Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.
Grace Coddington
#68. I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
Obie Trice
#69. What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew
Eamon
#70. I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'
Elayne Boosler
#71. For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#72. Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'
Prince Philip
#73. There were cats; cats I was wildly attached to - my husband and I spoke in cat voices. Once the marriage was over, I never thought of the cats again (until I wrote about them in a novel and disguised them as hamsters).
Nora Ephron
#74. Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!
Trina Paulus
#75. After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Orhan Pamuk
#76. We moved her into the garage, made up a comfy bed and supplied a litter box, food and water. One day I came home from work and my husband had moved all of them into the house. We already had eight indoor cats so I wasn't really happy to have four more move in.
Kurt Schmitt
#77. 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
Camille Paglia
#78. She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Bronte
#79. Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Leigh Hunt
#80. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.
Garrison Keillor
#81. The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar ...
Robertson Davies
#82. To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.
Louisa May Alcott
#83. Cats. Furry little sociopaths that we invite into our homes.
Jenna Inouye
#84. Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.
Cassandra Clare
#85. She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. Do'nt feel bad for the scuicidal cats, they've gotta kill themselves nine times before they get it right.
Fall Out Boy
#87. We had season tickets to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and, as only we Canadians can say, we had prime seats right on the fifty-five-yard line. And
Martin Short
#88. She never talked about wanting to have children. I believe she wanted solitude and cats.
Kate Bolick
#89. Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50
but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.
H.P. Lovecraft
#90. Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.
Eric Hoffer
#92. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.
Charles Bukowski
#93. Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma's lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.
Dennis Vickers
#94. Terriers usually have their own agenda, kind of like cats, only with a lot more pointless animation. - Sydney Linden
S.J. Hunter
#95. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Michael Korda
#96. I don't know why I'm so crazy about cats. I like how they are soft and warm, and individualistic, kind of like me.
Haruki Murakami
#97. Cats are the flowers in all animals kept at home.
Jade King
#98. In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
Roberto Bolano
#99. This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor.
Celia Rivenbark
#100. I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?
Bethany Cosentino
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