Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private. — Leonard Michaels
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
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard
While the cat's away, the mice will play. — James Arthur Ray
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. — Faye Resnick
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. — Champfleury
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Eloisa James
One cat just leads to another. — Ernest Hemingway
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. — Jane Pauley
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain
Feline Image Quotes
Pets Cats Quotes
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
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
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
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
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
Kitten Quotes
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
Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me. — James Franco
Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble. — Carlson Gracie
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens. — Banksy
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. — Dan Greenburg
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
Cat Quotes
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
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
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
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
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
Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you. — Mark Leyner
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. — Erica Jong
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
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. — Hank Ketcham
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. — Jeff Valdez
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. — Desmond Morris
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. — Hunter S. Thompson
How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends. — Laurel Burch
The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships. — John Piper
MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT. — Patricia Briggs
The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you. — Pam Brown
Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers. — H. P. Lovecraft
Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp. — Nathalia Crane
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.' — Eartha Kitt
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. — Carl Van Vechten
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea. — Lilian Jackson Braun
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep. — Hector Hugh Munro
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. — Marge Piercy
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives? — Louis J. Horvitz
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing — Herman Melville
To err is human, to purr feline. — Robert Byrne
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. — Aldous Huxley
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital extremities is 4, or 5, or 6," he simply looks at a cat and counts. A social scientist prefers the more long-winded expression every time, because it gives an entirely spurious impression of scientificness to what he is doing. — Anthony Standen
The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished. — Henry Miller
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women. — Mary MacLane
She’s the wild, feline, untamed part of you, your sexual alter ego and the opposite of the “good girl” or “little lady.” Some of us know her better than others do, but I would venture to guess that your erotic creature hasn’t seen nearly enough light of day. — Sheila Kelley
As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale. — Eartha Kitt
It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines. — Bruce Fogle
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