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Quotes About Cat

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.
~ Chic Murray
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
~ Fred Schwab
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
~ Dan Harmon
As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.
~ Adam Rex
A sleeping cat is ever alert.
~ Fred Schwab
I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.
~ Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
~ Harold Monro
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
~ Osbert Sitwell
...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~ William Bennett
The purpose of an imaginative narrative isn't to confirm what we think we already know about reality; rather, it offers "a record of the choices, inadvertent or deliberate, the author has made from all the possibilities of language." A fictional cat may reflect qualities of a real cat, but it is better appreciated as a product of the author's agile mind.
~ William H. Gass
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is reported to have said, "Whenever I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I want to reach for my gun.
~ William H. Keith Jr.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~ William J. Bennett
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
~ William Lyon Phelps
A cat… Good for Mackintoshes only. To others it is considered rosadach, or untoward. The cat is regarded as evil, as shown by the fact that witches are believed to assume this form.
~ William MacKenzie
A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away.
~ David Goodis
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
~ Victor Hugo
Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.
~ Dean Koontz
A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
~ J. G. Farrell
Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.
~ Peter Schiff
Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.
~ Stanley Spencer
All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.
~ Erin Hunter