Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Quotations About Cats V



My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~Robert A. Stern


Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
~Missy Dizick

In ancient times cats were wo
rshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett


Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~Robertson Davies


The cat is domestic
only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki


Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
~Garrison Keillor


Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. ~Louis J. Camuti


Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.
~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif


What greater gift than t
he love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens


Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of c
ream.
~T.S. Eliot


People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
~Faith Resnick


Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of an
y cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. ~Beverly Nichols


Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven.
~Lenny Rubenstein


You see, wire telegraph
is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ~Albert Einstein


Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~Monica Edwards


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


A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
~Arab Proverb


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. ~Roy Blount, Jr.


Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
~George F. Will


You own a dog but you f
eed a cat. ~Jenny de Vries


Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner.
~Gary Smith


Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker. ~Astrid Alauda


A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
~Arthur Bridges


Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~Henry David Thoreau


There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
~Author Unknown


Kittens can happen to anyon
e. ~Paul Gallico

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. ~Joseph Epstein


Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length.
~Frank Perkins


I have studied many phi
losophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine


There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
~Dan Greenberg


Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
~Sidney Denham


People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. ~Susan Easterly


Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
~Jean Burden


The trouble with a kitten
is that
Eventually it becomes a cat.
~Ogden Nash


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.
~Roger Caras


The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. ~Mark Twain


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Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.
~Paul Corey


Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.
~Proverb


Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
~Dan Greenburg


It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
~Eleanor Farjeon


Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
~Jim Davis


Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs.
~Val Schaffner


People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.
~Deborah A. Edwards


Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
~Irving Townsend

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ~Agnes Repplier


The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
~Colette

Monday, May 01, 2006

Quotations About Cats IV



I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau


By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
~Barbara Holland


You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. ~Jane Pauley


If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.
~Pierre Loti


You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes


I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.
~Astrid Alauda


If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart. ~Alan Devoe


To err is human, to purr is feline.
~Robert Byrne


Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath look like a collection of knitting mistakes.
~Eric Gurney


The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
~Proverb


Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded wi
th hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.
~Debbie Peterson


The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
~E.W. Howe


Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
~Proverb


To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
~Stephen Baker


Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
~James Gorman


Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. ~P.G. Wodehouse

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Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.
~Lillian Johnson


Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~May Sarton


A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
~Indian Proverb


People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
~Charlotte Gray


Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.
~Louise A. Belcher


Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
~Irish Saying


Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
~Author Unknown


One must love a cat on its own terms.
~Paul Gray


The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat.
~Michael McGarel