Cats Quotes
Garrison Keillor
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
3113 Orhan Pamuk
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
3270 Robert A. Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
2566 Terry Pratchett
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
4597 Peter Kreeft
Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.
3819 Erin Hunter
She will not die today. I won't let her.
2210 Laini Taylor
Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.
1478 Neil Gaiman
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
2726 Ally Carter
'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
3601 Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
1626 Albert Schweitzer
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
1524 Terry Pratchett
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
4511 Neil Gaiman
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
1229 Henry David Thoreau
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
2886 Eckhart Tolle
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.
1831 Hippolyte Taine
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
2222 Guillaume Apollinaire
Le Chat
Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison.
Un chat passant parmi les livres.
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.
2628 Richelle Mead
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.
1987 Erin Hunter
I wonder if he'll ever see the truth in my own heart: that, whatever Dustpelt says, however much Fireheart breaks the warrior code, I love him more that I could imagine loving any other cat. And if Fireheart knew, would he love me, too?
- Sandstorm
4579 Gordon Korman
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
3705 Rachel Gibson
Snowball?"
It's white."
Meow."
It's so girly."
This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."
his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"
Your sister told me.
2530 Terry Pratchett
WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?
2040 Kelli Jae Baeli
One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.
1591 Roger A. Caras
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.
2499 Christopher Hitchens
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
3320 Connie Willis
Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.
4482 Adam Rex
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
4583 Charles Bukowski
when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns
3862 Amy Lowell
A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume...
2782 Haruki Murakami
You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.
4153 Maryam Faresh
You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.
3097 Jon Edgell
Time becomes meaningless without memory.
1242 Robertson Davies
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
4123 Greg Curtis
My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog!
4008 Robert J. Morrissette
And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
4723 Scott Lynch
Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- Mrrrrwwwwww", said the monstrous little necessity.
1636 Colette
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
3569 Jon Edgell
[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.
3434 Julio Cortázar
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
4222 Lucy Mangan
When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.
2300 Katherine Rundell
He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.
1975 Wendy Beck
The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.
For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.
4145 Richard Mabey
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.
2026 F.T. McKinstry
Love is whole. Love cannot be divided from itself. Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.
2380 Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."
"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.
1333 Zechariah Barrett
Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark’s closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. “I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.
1665 H.G. Wells
He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.
3506 Eugen Weber
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
3953 Tiziano Scarpa
Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.
1740 Dan Harmon
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
1350 Mason Cooley
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
4576 William S. Burroughs
You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
3345 C.S. Lewis
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.
4146 Thekla Clark
John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats.
4763 Michelle Tea
Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.
1670 Lewis N. Roe
Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.
1533 Anne Brontë
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
1426 Jacqueline Simon Gunn
Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony - the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At the time of the incident, however, humor was not in my emotional repertoire; it was the furthest thing from my mind.
4175 William S. Burroughs
We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.
2613 Ray Bradbury
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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