Cat Quotes

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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
Nothing makes a house cozier than cats. — Gladys Taber
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. — Jane Pauley
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate… — Aldous Huxley
In the night all cats are gray. — Miguel de Cervantes
We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats. — Roger Caras
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at… — Thomas Huxley
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call… — Josh Billings
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it… — Hector Hugh Munro
The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat." — Elmer Davis
In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure,… — Lowell Thomas
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does… — Henry David Thoreau
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. — Eleanor Farjeon
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless.… — John Updike
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is… — Vance Packard
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like:… — Wendy Liebman
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… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce

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