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Quotes About Cats

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
~ Charles Bukowski
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.
~ Charles Bukowski
I walked up the driveway. The cats were sprawled about, pooped. In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. Humans are too miserable and angry and single-minded.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living but not for my 5 cats
~ Charles Bukowski
the strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful.         one
~ Charles Bukowski
the next time you listen to Borodin remember his wife used his compositions to line the cat boxes with or to cover jars of sour milk;
~ Charles Bukowski
I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance.
~ Charles Bukowski
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
~ Charles Bukowski
La razza umana esagera tutto: i propri eroi, i propri nemici, la propria importanza. Lo sapevate che i gatti dormono venti ore su ventiquattro? Non c'è da stupirsi che abbiano un aspetto migliore del mio.
~ Charles Bukowski
Particles are constantly winking in and out of existence, like tiny Cheshire cats.
~ Charles Seife
AFTER WE DO THE WASHING-UP, I GET TO SPEND THE REST OF the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web. It takes about half an hour to come to the unwelcome realization that they're almost as complex as home-brew gaming PCs, and have even more failure modes. (When your gaming PC malfunctions it doesn't stealthily dump core in your shoes.)
~ Charles Stross
Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.
~ Charles Stross
There was no sound from the cats. Unlike dogs and rattlesnakes, they don't warn you before they strike. They aren't gentlemen. That's one of the reasons why I like them.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
~ Paula Poundstone
Yes I love cats, I love dogs, I love all animals - anything on four legs with fur on more or less qualifies.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.
~ Kerry Greenwood
The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.
~ Kij Johnson
Of course, he had always been wise in the ways of cats, valuing them above entire races, many men, and most women.
~ Kij Johnson
Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?" Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.
~ Kiyohiko Azuma
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.
~ Carl Van Vechten
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.
~ Carl Van Vechten
Ah, yes, my—partners." "Misters Wickham and Clyde?" Eugene Harley Esq. cleared his throat. "They don't exist—or rather, not as human beings." "I beg your pardon?" "Those are the names of my cats.
~ Carole Lawrence
What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
The Wilders, of course, paid no attention to her exuberance, continuing to live a frugal existence among their pigs and hens, entertained by a self-re-newing circle of farm cats and their preternaturally gifted Airedale terrier, Nero, who would sit politely at the dinner table like a member of the family, eating off his own plate.
~ Caroline Fraser