Quotes on cats
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.
Gray, Charlotte
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Thoreau, Henry David
In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
Amberson, Rosanne
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.
Ketchum, Hank
Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.
Braun, Lillian Jackson
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Reynard, Jules
Who hath a better friend than a cat?
Hardwin, William
Dogs eat. Cats dine.
Taylor, Ann
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular - with some justification, unfortunately - consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
Alexander, Lloyd
A meow massages the heart.
McMillan, Stuart
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it.
Bridges, Arthur
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.
Gorman, James
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
Mikes, George
Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
Saying, Irish
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
Alexander, Lloyd
Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.
Proverb
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Churchill, Winston
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Taine, Hippolyte
To err is human, to purr is feline.
Byrne, Robert
Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.
Moncrif, F.A. Paradis de
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Valdez, Jeff
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Lincoln, Abraham
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Twain, Mark
When a cat speaks, it's because it has something to say, unlike humans who are the great refuse containers of speech.
Allineare, V.L.
One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.
Thomson, Helen
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
Bruce, Dereke
The cat was created when the lion sneezed.
Proverb, Arabian
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Unknown, Author
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.
Proverb, Arab
If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.
Diamond, Barbara L.
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
Gray, Charlotte
People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.
Edwards, Deborah A.
Cat (kat') n. Dog with an attitude problem.
Author, Unknown
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.
Alauda, Astrid
I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.
Alauda, Astrid
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
MacKenzie, Compton