Cat Quotes
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After last week’s collection of dog quotes, my daughter—a cat person—felt felines deserved equal time.
- Beware of people who dislike cats. —Irish Proverb
- Any member introducing a dog into the Society’s premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. —Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
- The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. —Jules Renard
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn’t just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I’m mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names… —T.S. Eliot- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats. —Albert Schweitzer
- Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. —Robert Heinlein
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. —Leonardo da Vinci
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore, either. —Mark Twain
- I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats. —Counting Crows
- Never wear anything that panics the cat. —PJ O’Rourke
- Subliminal kitty messages? “You are getting very sleepy” is not a command when said to a cat; it is an eternal truth. —Ari Rapkin
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. —Mark Twain
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow. —Jeff Valdez
- 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
- Maybe I fed the cat. Maybe I didn’t. —overheard at the Schroedinger household
- I tat I taw a puddy tat… —Tweety
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A couple more for you:
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air”
– Doris Lessing
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
And one your daughter won’t want to read:
“…who needs to purr to make his point? Death to all cats! The Rule of Dogs shall last a thousand years!”
– Peter Porter