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 simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. — Mark Twain
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. — Lewis Carroll
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
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? — Friedrich Nietzsche
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. — Champfleury
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 ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there. — Harold Monro
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. — Robertson Davies
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
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford
There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone. — Louis J. Camuti
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
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. — Helen Rowland
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Eloisa James
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. — Victor Hugo
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. — Paul Gray
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. — Jane Pauley
Purring Quotes
And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling. — Louise Rennison
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown
I have lived with several masters - all of them cats.
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. — Emile Chartier
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. — Hank Ketcham
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. — John Weitz
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. — Jeff Valdez
...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. — Carl Van Vechten
Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed. — Jack Kerouac
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne
Cat Purr Quotes
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful. — Akif Pirincci
If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr. — Karla Kuskin
If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) — Ray Bradbury
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr. — Margaret Atwood
God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants. — Jeff Miller
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr. — Irving Townsend
Could the purr be anything but contemplative? — Irving Townsend
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
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. — Ellen Perry
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
Purr Quotes
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men. — Gwendolyn Brooks
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. — Mark Twain
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. — Neil Gaiman
When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten. — Buddy Rice
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery. — Emmett Tyrrell
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. — Lance Morrow
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. — Adlai Stevenson
I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand. — Ted Nugent
Cute Cat Quotes
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. — Paul Gray
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
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle
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
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
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
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. — Faye Resnick
I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces! — Jeff Goldblum
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway
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 hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names. — T. S. Eliot
A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. — James P. Gorman
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. — James P. Gorman
I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA. — Kellie Pickler
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten
The naming of cats is a difficult matter — T. S. Eliot
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.' — Dilys Laing
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. — Kenneth Grahame
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. — Agnes Repplier
The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you. — Pam Brown
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat. — Agnes Repplier
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic. — Monica Edwards
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. — Erasmus Darwin
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
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society. — Theophile Gautier
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
In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring. — Nellie L. McClung
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. — Christopher Smart
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world. — Sydney, Lady Morgan
She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch. — Nalini Singh
JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly. — Cassandra Clare
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious. — Heinrich Heine
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert. — Jerry Spinelli
No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed. — Paul Gallico
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