Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? — Bette Midler
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud
Short Cat Love Quotes
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. — Margaret Benson
Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private. — Leonard Michaels
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. — Leonardo da Vinci
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. — William S. Burroughs
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. — Deng Xiaoping
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. — Tycho Brahe
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. — Mark Twain
I've always been mad about cats. — Vivien Leigh
Cats know everything there is to know about meditation. — Veronique Vienne
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Dog And Cat Love Quotes
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. — Kristen Bell
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. — Carnie Wilson
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Eloisa James
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. — Peter Dinklage
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life. — Henry David Thoreau
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures. — Marie Bashkirtseff
dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I Love My Cat Quotes
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson
I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home. — Amanda Holden
I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams. — Pablo Neruda
My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. — Kenny Loggins
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed. — Jolene Blalock
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me! — Christopher Walken
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad. — Michelle Branch
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there. — Mary Ann Hoberman
Cat Lover Quotes
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. — Mark Twain
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. — Charlotte Gray
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. — Paul Gray
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. — Raymond Chandler
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. — Faye Resnick
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! — Theophile Gautier
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott
Animal Love Quotes
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? — Saadat Hasan Manto
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. — Anthony of Padua
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras
Dog Love Quotes
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz
Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones. — Snoop Dogg
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain
Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. — Lenny Bruce
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. — Waylon Jennings
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? — Steven Wright
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' — Al Capone
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come. — Maya Angelou
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. — Geoffrey Household
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. — William Ralph Inge
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. — Walker Evans
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't. — William S. Burroughs
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots. — Kandyse McClure
I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time. — Michael Showalter
Pets Cats Quotes
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. — Theresa May
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? — Eleanor Porter
I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life. — Halle Berry
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. — Kinky Friedman
Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. — Marion Woodman
You can, sometimes, teach a cat to walk on its hind legs. You might even be able to teach it to bark. But that doesn’t make it a dog. — Rand Fishkin
Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die. — Karl Pilkington
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. — Paul Gray
A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. — James P. Gorman
If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape. — Vilfredo Pareto
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. — Sayings
There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it. — Paul Gallico
When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word. — Garrison Keillor
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. — S. Parkes Cadman
People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people. — John A. McDougall
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. — James Thurber
All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead. — Noel Fielding
Inspirational Cat Quotes
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. — Will Cuppy
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. — Carl Van Vechten
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. — Jane Pauley
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. — Albert Einstein
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. — Neil Gaiman
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 and the Onion of ancient Egypt. — Ambrose Bierce
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. — Sarah Addison Allen
A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. — Mark Twain
You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don't have the energy to be mad at me anymore." Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne — Karen Robards
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. — Jerome K. Jerome
Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking — Amy Jenkins
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare. — Joyce Stranger
I used to love dogs until I discovered cats. — Nafisa Joseph
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine. — William Shakespeare
Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another. — Irving Townsend
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. — Paul Gallico
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces! — Jeff Goldblum
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love? — Matsuo Basho
Animals have come to mean so much in
our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly,
religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate.
What's one thing that we have in our lives
that we can depend on? A dog or a cat
loving us unconditionally , every day, very
faithfully. — Jon Katz
Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one. — Cassandra Peterson
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