Cat Quotes

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

Since coming to Mythos, I'd almost been run through with a sword and mauled to death by a killer kitty cat. Dirty looks didn't faze me anymore.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

Cats definitely have their own opinions.

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.

My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

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

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.