Cat Quotes

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With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels. — Louis J. Camuti
To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake. — Aileen Fisher
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. — Agnes Repplier
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. — Doug Larson
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled… — Doris Lessing
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you... — Wystan Hugh Auden
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. — Konrad Lorenz
To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies. — Agnes Repplier
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to… — Rudyard Kipling
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Compton Mackenzie
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. — Compton Mackenzie
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. — George Mikes
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body. — Erma Bombeck
The cat always leaves a mark on his friend. — Aesop
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. — Ernest Hemingway
The thing about cats as you might find, is that no one knows what they have in mind. — John Ciardi

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