Cat Quotes · Page 116

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

“Rosemary watched as Fig lay down, dutifully letting Bee clumsily climb and trample all over her like an annoying little sister. Cherry…

— Nadia El-Fassi

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

— Hippolyte Taine

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

— Diane Sawyer

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

— Anonymous

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

— Terry Pratchett

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

— Eugene Ionesco

It's an honor to paint cats.

— Oliver Johnson

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We…

— Billy Bob Thornton

“BONES: “I want you to promise me something. Promise me you’re not going to start running again.” CAT: “No, I’m too tired…

— Jeaniene Frost

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

— Petrarch

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody,…

— Richard Land

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

— Lloyd Alexander

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

— Wendy C. Ortiz

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which…

— Francis Bacon

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

— Henry David Thoreau

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all…

— Susanna Clarke

I'm just an outgoing cool cat.

— Nick Young

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"…

— Samuel Butler

You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?…

— Lil B

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

— Wayne Coyne

If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“Imprinting." I heard the smile disappear from Cat's face. "Next." I repeated myself. "Are you referring to Stephenie Meyer's books?" "Yes," I…

— Shannon Delany

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

— Erasmus Darwin

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

— Anna Quindlen