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Quotes About Cats

Les mots sont indépendants, comme les chats, et ils ne font pas ce que vous voulez. Vous avez beau les aimer, les flatter, leur parler doucement, il s'échappent et partent à l'aventure.
~ Unknown
I don't need a premonition. It's common sense. Strange old woman. Living alone. I don't want to go inside and see all the dead rats and cats and kids in her refrigerator and watch her sing over the bones.
~ Lynne Ewing
It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can see the future and gain insight.
~ M.J. Rose
Lily asked, "What do you mean when you say Number One's eyes were different?" "Like a cat's eyes. You know what a cat's eyes look like?" "No," said Katie. "Because my cat is so completely lazy I've never seen her eyes actually open." "Which?" said Lily. "Trish?" "She didn't move for a week. Dad thought she was dead. We were about to bury her when someone noticed the chicken was missing from the counter.
~ Unknown
Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.
~ John Irving
Cats could follow human instructions if they wanted to, but they don't.
~ John Lloyd
If cats don't encounter people by the time they're 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.
~ John Lloyd
When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
~ John Heywood
Even the cook has to admit that there are advantages to living alongside a dynasty of cats.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Listen, little girl," said Duke. "If there is one thing you don't do, it's try to break up a cat fight.
~ Mandy M. Roth
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
~ John Steinbeck
Cats drip over the fences and slither like syrup over the ground to look for fish heads. Silent
~ John Steinbeck
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
~ Marge Piercy
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
~ Eddie Izzard
Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
~ Steven Wright
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
~ Bette Midler
It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
~ Darby Conley
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.
~ W. H. Auden
People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
~ Faith Resnick
One cat just leads to another.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
~ Unknown
Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
~ Unknown
His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doing a crossword puzzle." - Ken Morton, Edward Gorey's first cousin once removed, on Gorey's daily routines.
~ Unknown