Cat Quotes

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from kittypets or rogues. And visitors will be welcome.

When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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.

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

I am allergic to cats, the cat in 'Don't Stop' was actually a very small fury human.

A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

When they are among us cats are angels

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

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

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.