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Quotes About Cats

I say we have Del and Faz ask around, find out if any cats have gone missing in the kid's neighborhood or if he trolls the Internet
~ Robert Dugoni
The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.
~ Robert Lynd
There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly.
~ Robin McKinley
Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.
~ Rod Espinosa
Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.
~ Roger A. Caras
The presence of cats exercises such a magic influence upon highly organized men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom...have been the favorite animal of a Mahommed, Cardinal Richelieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
~ Lewis Carroll
Not like cats " cried the Mouse in a shrill passionate voice. "Would you like cats if you were me
~ Lewis Carroll
One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.
~ Lewis Carroll
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?
~ Lewis Carroll
cats.' 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would you like cats if you were me?' 'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she
~ Lewis Carroll
le gustan los gatos!", gritó el ratón con voz apasionada y penetrante. "¿Te gustarían los gatos si fueses yo?"   "Bueno, puede que no", dijo Alicia en tono conciliador: "no se enoje. Y así y todo me encantaría presentarle a nuestra gata Dinah. Si sólo la viera, creo que le tomaría cariño a los gatos.
~ Lewis Carroll
I didn't know that cats could grin.' 'They all can,' said the Duchess, 'and most of 'em do.
~ Lewis Carroll
I'll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time.
~ Libba Bray
No one ever owns a cat," he corrected her. "You share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respect . . . although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal. Siamese particularly have a way of getting the upper hand.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
I'm a gypsy at heart," Qwilleran said. "Home is where I hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode. See you tonight.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Lilian Jackson Braun
~ never read a book
Lilian Jackson Braun
~ the balusters
A cat without a tail is better than a politician without a head. Theres a destiny that leads a hungry cat to the right doorstep. Home is where the sardines are. No matter how humble, a free meal is not to be sniffed at. Where theres a will, a cat will find a way. Soft cushions are for catsall others use them at their own risk. What goes down must come up, if its a pill.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
What a touching domestic scene! I suppose the demographers have you classified as an untraditional family: one man, two cats." "One man, two animal companions," he corrected her.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
The cats were relaxing in a patch of sunlight on the rug without a thought in their sleek brown heads. What matter to them that it was Sunday-or even Thursday? Every day was Today in their scheme of things, and there was no such thing as Yesterday or Tomorrow.
~ Lillian Jackson Braun
the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
~ Albert Einstein
If you want to write, keep cats.
~ Aldous Huxley
These sociopaths,' he said. 'What do they feel like? Inside?' Isabel smiled. 'Unmoved,' she said. 'They feel unmoved. Look at a cat when it does something wrong. It looks quite unmoved. Cats are sociopaths, you see. It's their natural state.
~ Alexander McCall Smith