Cat Quotes · Page 26

Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?

— Rush Limbaugh

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

— Tim Allen

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

— Charles Kingsley

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

— Michel de Montaigne

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

— Steve Martin

“Bones just stared. "You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!”

— Jeaniene Frost

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

— Swami Vivekananda

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

— Margo Martindale

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell…

— Tim Powers

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to…

— Ned Beauman

I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the…

— Studs Terkel

I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to…

— Jeaniene Frost

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

— Charles Darwin

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so…

— Andre Norton

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will…

— Abraham Verghese

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a…

— Garth Nix

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being…

— Neil Gaiman

I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet…

— Patricia McPherson

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…

— Charles Darwin

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.…

— Jaco Pastorius

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and…

— Johnny Carson

I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish…

— Anonymous

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

— Sammy Hagar

When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw...

— Cassandra Clare

Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.

— Thomas Henderson

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

— Sylvia Plath

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

— Lenny Bruce

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

— El-P

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

— John le Carre

Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

— Dean Koontz

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not…

— Anonymous

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

— Winston Churchill

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

— Anais Nin

We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other.

— P. D. James

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

— Mark Twain

I don't consider myself a fat cat. Don't make me out to be a fat cat.

— Norman Braman

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

— Iris Murdoch