Some great cat quotes

[Zainab_M]

Roseanne Anderson:
In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

Paul Annixter:
Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature.
(this explains the accepted cat phenomena - unlike dogs, they carry a sense of belonging to the place rather than the people).

Danielle Asson:
A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most.

Stephen Baker:
Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.

Eric Temple Bell:
Cats hate water only when it is dumped on them, as who wouldn't? Given the opportunity, they will fish diligently in the neighborhood fish ponds.

Ellen Perry Berkeley:
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Karel Capek:
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust a cat because she knows her better than we do.

Winifred Carriere:
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

Jules Champfleury:
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. He makes perilous voyages into cellar and attic, he scales the roofs of neighboring houses, he thrusts his little inquiring nose into half-shut doors...he gets himself into every kind of trouble, and he's always sorry when it is too late.

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand:
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch.

When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master.

Chaucer:
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.

Seymour and Paula Chwast:
Getting a cat is a greater commitment than getting married.

Colette:
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.

Patricia Dale-Green:
The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.

Jim Davis:
Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken...then they awaken them ten minutes earlier.

Michel deMontaigne:
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?

Sidney Denham:
Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore.

Mike Deupree:
When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.

Allen and Ivy Dodd:
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.

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

T. S. Eliot:
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.

Evan Esar:
A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

JIm Fiebig:
You own a dog; you feed a cat.

Thomas Fuller:
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one.

Francis Galton:
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal.

Theophile Gautier:
God has created the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

W. L. George:
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

Bruce Graham:
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.

Charlotte Gray:
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Paul Gray:
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

One must love a cat on its own terms.

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

Robert A. Heinlein:
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Tay Hohoff:
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Lynn Hollyn:
Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.

Lesley Anne Ivory:
Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated...Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.

William Kunstler:
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

Ernest Menual:
These furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all you emotions into.

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

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Harold Monro:
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Desmond Morris:
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Wright Morris:
Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

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

Paula Poundstone:
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their faces whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

John Simon:
I have found my love of cats most helpful in understanding women.

Robert Stearns:
Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. Dogs are the peasants, dutifully plodding behind their leaders.

Adlai Stevenson:
To escort a cat on a leash is against the nature of the cat.

Joyce Stranger:
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Hippolyte Taine:
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Mark Twain:
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Robert J. Vogel:
A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend.

John Weitz:
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

Alfred North Whitehead:
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

P. G. Wodehouse:
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Yeah, very nice ones ...

Ernest Menual:
These furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all you emotions into. 

 

[N. Truth Seeker]

heehehe, this is good, though some don't sound too complimentary