Cat Quotes

2174 Cat quotes by 1209 unique authors

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see… — Ernest Hemingway
Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were… — Rudyard Kipling
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. — Robert Anton Wilson
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my… — Michel de Montaigne
A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth… — Marsilio Ficino
Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat! — John Greenleaf Whittier
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone. — John Ray
A cat may looke on a King. — John Heywood
No favor can win gratitude from a cat. — Jean de La Fontaine
Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it… — Arnold Bennett
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat… — Ambrose Bierce
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he… — John Steinbeck
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,… — Konrad Lorenz
But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats? — Gregory Corso
Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would… — Dave Barry
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries… — H. L. Mencken
I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a… — Sylvia Plath
After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca. — Shauna Singh Baldwin
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat.… — Victor Hugo

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