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Quotes About Cats

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves
~ David Brunner
If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.
~ Jerry Climer
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
~ Marie Leszczynska
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
~ Virginia Woolf
When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'
~ Clay Shirky
A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.
~ Gladys Taber
The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.
~ Glenn Greenwald
...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
~ Cleveland Amory
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
~ Erica Jong
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
~ Eugen Weber
I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.
~ Greg Ginn
The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
~ Lynne Truss
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's an honor to paint cats.
~ Oliver Johnson
Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
~ Bruce Fogle
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
~ William Ralph Inge
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
~ T. S. Eliot
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
~ John Weitz
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
~ Daniel Handler
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
~ Adlai Stevenson I