Cat Quotes · Page 46

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

— Monica Edwards

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

— Erin Hunter

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

— Steven Wright

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

— Bill Dana

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

— Malcolm X

Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

— Chris Evert

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

— Theophile Gautier

I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun…

— Anita O'Day

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives…

— Anonymous

Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

— Erin Hunter

My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor…

— Thomas Mallon

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight…

— Langston Hughes

You'd really spend about a hundred dollars for fake testicles for your cat? I'm not sure I'd spend that for fake testicles…

— John Dobbin

“The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast. For all who dream of varied light, the cat…

— Wendy Beck

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally…

— John Naughton

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there…

— Terry Goodkind

When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine…

— Mia Goth

You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how…

— Jim Goad

I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior…

— Jon Gordon

This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake…

— Joe Biden

I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published…

— Ali Liebegott

Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a…

— Aldous Huxley

“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean…

— Vicki Myron

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

— Nick Denton

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

— Robert A. Heinlein

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

— Leonora Carrington

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

— Monica Edwards

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

— Terry Pratchett

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.

— Kinky Friedman

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

— Anonymous

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

— Charles Baudelaire

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

— Thomas Gray

“I have a Siamese twin cat. It's got 2 heads and 18 lives.”

— M.J. McGuire

“Meg's face clouded, and I wondered if she was going to rain the way people do sometimes.”

— Ray Rhamey

Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

— Russell Simmons

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

— John R. Erickson

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

— W. C. Fields

“The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.”

— Mary Matthews

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

— Bob Monkhouse