Cat Quotes

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

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.

I'm pretty sure 'ferral cats' is code for 'vampire cougars.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

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.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

I am such a scaredy-cat.

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.

If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.

And how do you know that you're mad?

Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.

Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Who are you and why are you my cat?

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.