Wild Cat Sayings

#1. Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

Oscar Ameringer

#2. One large bundle held their all - bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens - all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.

Bob Dylan

#4. Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open ... and it's a wild cat.

Giovanni Trapattoni

#6. We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Winston Churchill

#7. She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.

Erin Hunter

#9. It is 3:38 a.m., and the time of night when my mind starts running around all wild and out of control, like my cat, George, when he was a kitten.

Jennifer Niven

#10. Say, Nana ... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

Ai Yazawa

#11. Sarah wondered if at night the trees dreamed of a time when they covered the world and the true kings were wild and wore crowns of horns and antlers. Even

Cat Hellisen

#12. Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake.

Cat Winters

#13. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

Ice-T

#14. People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

Fab Five Freddy

#15. I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. I struggled to hold her. It was not unlike holding a cat. Some wild, ninja, cat.

Melissa Wright

#17. Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue
Translation:
Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others

Christine Feehan

#18. If it weren't for this hyena, the sailors wouldn't have thrown me into the lifeboat and I would have stayed on the ship and I surely would have drowned; and if I had to share quarters with a wild animal, better the upfront ferocity of a dog than the power and stealth of a cat.

Yann Martel

#19. I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

Daryl Hannah

#20. I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.

Jackie Collins

#21. Don't run around this world
looking for a hole to hide in.
There are wild beasts in every cave!
If you live with mice,
the cat claws will find you.

Rumi

#22. I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Dominic Monaghan

#23. And when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

Rudyard Kipling

#24. There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.

Les Blank

#25. I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

Rex Stout

#26. Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

Edward Topsell

#27. Then the fire was shining on the hearth, the cold and the dark and the wild beasts were all shut out, and Jack the brindle bulldog and Black Susan the cat lay blinking at the flames in the fireplace. Ma sat in her rocking chair, sewing by the light

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#28. Cat Steven's song Wild World: Oh Baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard to get by just on a smile, Oh baby, baby, it's a wild world and I'll always remember you like a child.

Jennifer Connors

#29. I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.

Jake M. Johnson

#30. and even the feral, near-wild Third Cat, whose true name he had never discovered, as one has to do with cats, trailed

Peter S. Beagle

#31. Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

Gertrude Stein

#32. I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

Jenny Downham

#33. Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite?

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#34. Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Mark Twain

#35. The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

Konrad Lorenz

#36. Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

Cat Stevens

#37. Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud ... But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well..but she never realized how much pain it brought her ... -Nana Komatsu

Ai Yazawa