Quotes About Cats

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats. ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

Albert Einstein, who reportedly said that music and cats offer the only escape from the miseries of life.

Yes, dear reader, that's the other reason we cats purr. Arguably, it's the most important reason: to make you happy. Purring is our V—our way of reminding you that you are loved and special, and that you should never forget how we feel about you, especially when you're vulnerable.

If daylight belongs to the dogs, then we cats are creatures of the night. We are the feline yin to the canine yang.

It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

He stared at the gadget in his hand and said, "So it's a magnet for cats? Hey! It's a pussy mag—

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Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

Blame has to do with a crime committed in the past. Values is all about the present: who's good and who's bad. future—a fix that makes for a better tomorrow and drier cats.

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

She prefers cats to dogs, which is almost worse than being a conservative.

Quick, how do you pick up a cat? Buy her a drink.

The one small room the house contained was scoured as a seashell. There was a table, a chest, a bedstead with a faded quilt, a spinning wheel, and a small loom. A few ancient kettles hung about the clean-swept hearth. From a square of sunlight on the floor an enormous yellow cat opened one eye to look at them.

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats. It is an engaging quality, Emerson. That depends, said Emerson darkly, on how he likes them.

That must be why some people like dogs; they can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...

Cats cannot be held accountable for their actions, because they have no morals to speak of.

Alteri e distaccati, eternamente rapiti in remote, misteriose meditazioni, [i gatti] si concedono all'altrui adorazione ed è difficile che diano qualcosa in cambio. Eccetto le fusa.

No blandishments could make those cats stir if they weren't in the mood, and one does want whatever one is calling to come.