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Quotes About Cats

Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts.
~ George Freedley
An ever-increasing family of tabbies, sprung from one enormous matriarch, sit about upon the counter and on the empty shelves, somnolent and contemplative, their amber eyes narrowed and winking in the sun, a reluctant slit of liquid in an expanse of hot fur.
~ Iris Murdoch
There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?
~ Irvine Welsh
Daniel's natural, understated happiness, like the happiness of cats
~ Isabel Allende
Não gostava de pessoas, preferia os gatos. Digeria os humanos em pequenas doses, mais de três provocavam-lhe indigestão. - Alma Belasco
~ Isabel Allende
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
~ Betty White
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
~ Mark Twain
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
~ T. S. Eliot
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
~ Lewis Thomas
I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.
~ Barbara Webster
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
~ Brian Greene
I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
~ K. A. Applegate
Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
~ Tamora Pierce
here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
~ Temple Grandin
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it.
~ Susan Howatch
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.
~ Susanna Clarke
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
~ Susanna Clarke
My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.
~ Jason Wu
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
~ Wendell Pierce
There's a theater on the next street playing a revival of Cats, which mankind will likely have to suffer through for the rest of eternity.
~ Neal Shusterman
Cats All ardent lovers and all sages prize, —As ripening years incline upon their brows— The mild and mighty cats—pride of the house— That like unto them are indolent, stern and wise.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
~ Charles Bukowski
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
~ Charles Bukowski