Timeless Quotations on Cats
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci
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Timeless Quotations on Cats The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci |
| When I play with my cat, who knows
whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her? Michel
de Montaigne
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. A cat is there when you call her - if she
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Time spent with cats is never wasted Cats seem to go on
the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. The cat has nine lives: three for playing three for straying, and three for staying. English Proverb Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. No matter how much cats fight, there always
seem to be plenty of kittens Most cats, when they are Out want to be In,
and vice versa, and often simultaneously. When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. T. S. Eliot Cats names are more for human benefit. They
give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. If cats could talk, they would lie to you. The cat lives alone, has no need of society,
obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see the more
clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. It is impossible to keep a straight face in
the presence of one or more kittens. A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a
cat's best friend. The cat is a dilettante in fur.
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a
cat. Those who play with
cats must expect to be scratched. Cats know not how to pardon. It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
Cats are intended
to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. If cats could talk, they would lie to you.
The cat could very well be man's best friend
but would never stoop to admitting it. The more people I meet the more I like my cat. All cats are grey
in the dark. Watch a cat when it enters a room for the
first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it
trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything. People with
insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. Cats pride themselves on
their ability to do nothing. Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
"Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and
the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou
art indeed...the Great Cat." I love cats because I enjoy
my home; and little by little, A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
Ignorant people think it
is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so;
it is the sickening grammar they use. Garfield's Law: Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners
will awaken... then they awaken them ten minutes sooner. Even a cat is a lion in her own lair. A cat is always at the
wrong side of the door. I am as vigilant as a cat
to steal cream. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. Cats are rather delicate
creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I
God made the cat in order
that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger. Cats are smarter
than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Dogs believe they are human. Cats
believe they are God. If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him -- Anonymous In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should
have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat Wesley Bates If a dog jumps in
your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it
is because your lap is warmer. Never play cat and
mouse games if you're a mouse. It is the nature of a cat that it
rather avoids confrontation than starts a fight against overwhelming odds... Who
would venture to call a cat a weak animal. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped
as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. No one can have experienced to the fullest
the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who have never pursued and
successfully caught his tail. Kittens are born with
their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then
close them again for the better part of their natural lives. Artists like cats, soldiers like dogs. A cat can purr its way out
of anything. You will always be
lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human
being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or
her entertainment value. -- Robert A. Heinlein Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you
later. Anyone who has accustomed
himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless
is in danger of arriving also at
the idea of worthless human lives. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. He who is cruel to animals
becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the
heart of a man by his treatment of
animals It is man's sympathy with
all creatures that first makes him truly a man In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a
cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, 'When I pray to him, he
ignores me' If a man aspires towards a
righteous life, his first act of abstinence is
The time will come when
men such as I will look upon the murdur of animals as
they now look upon the murder of
men Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement,
and love without penalties. In the night all cats are gray. Cats are a mysterious kind
of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. The ideal of calm exists
in a sitting cat. Cats love one so much - more than they will
allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves. One cat just leads to another A dog knows his master, a cat does
not. The cat is the mirror of
his human's mind… the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance. Cats are a mysterious kind
of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. For years scientists have pondered the reason
why cats
What sort of philosophers are we, who know
absolutely nothing Until one has loved an
animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. I've met many thinkers and many cats, To please himself only the cat purrs. The cat was created
when the lion sneezed. If cats could talk, they
wouldn't. With the qualities of cleanliness, affection,
patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would
be capable of becoming cats? Work - other people's work - is an
intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to
pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. The cat's a saint when there are no mice
about. --Japanese proverb 'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 'Can you tell me,
please, which way I ought to go from here,' asked Alice. 'That depends a good
deal on where you want to get to,' said the cat. A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin. In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a
natural combination. There are no
ordinary cats. As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. In spite of the veneration which the
Egyptians had for the cat, we are told that the punishment for adultery by a
woman in Egypt was to be sewn into a sack with a live cat and flung into the
Nile. Authors like cats
because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for
the same reasons. People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. Cats don't like change without their consent. Way down deep we
are all motivated by the same urges, Cats have the courage to live by them. |
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