Quotes About Cats

Cats are so easy. I would definitely welcome more cats into the Stern household.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in…could you tell me what she's thinking?' 'I can tell you what she's thinking right now, no touching necessary,' I drawled. 'She's thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you.' …Every cat that was awake when I'd smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;

Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.

I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate, he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life.

Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.

People who don't like cats, said Valancy, attacking her dessert with a relish, always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

But you needn't try to make us believe you can chloroform a cat, laughed Anne. It was all the fault of the knothole, protested Phil. It was a good thing the knothole was there, said Aunt Jamesina rather severely. Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death—unless he sucks eggs.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

I have never liked cats, said Mrs. Gardner remotely. I love them, said Dorothy. They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

How could men who liked cats be bad?

At Arbor Court, with the cats fed and tea made, she said, "Bowling." "I had to get away from the bookstore," I said, "and there were things I needed to do, but I wasn't ready to do them yet. And every once in a while for the past few years I've told myself that I really ought to go over to Bowl-Mor, and I never did, and then the building came down and all I had left was a resentment.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Felines were venerated and worshiped in ancient Egypt as the embodiment of goddess Bastet's spirit. In fact, the Egyptians respected cats so much that the invading Persians adorned their shields with them in 525 BC in the hope that the Egyptians would refuse to throw spears at them. They were right, and the Persians won the battle.

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Or perhaps we were short-changed by evolution, and lack the concepts needed to understand the relationship between brains and consciousness. Cats can't do calculus and monkeys can't do quantum theory, so why assume that Homo sapiens can demystify consciousness?

Quit it," Kitty warns. "We're not getting a cat. Cats are blah. They're also very manipulative