Cats Quotes

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

Your dog thinks you're a god. Your cat thinks the dog's an asshole.

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.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

A cat has absolute honesty.

Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Cats invented self-esteem.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of 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.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Cats are a waste of fur.