quotations about cats
Dogs have Masters. Cats have staff.
ANONYMOUS
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It had need to be a wiley mouse that should breed in the cats ear.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Lathe of Heaven
Tens of millions of people have lived side by side with tens of millions of cats for a very long time--4,000 years is the generally accepted length of time that we can trace our relationship with them. However, cats never became as fully domesticated as dogs, nor did we ever develop a hierarchical relationship where we became the "masters" of cats.... Cats have lived as solitary hunters for most of their ancestry. Early cats in the wild didn't depend on any other creature for their comfort and survival--not their own kind, not humankind. So what we may interpret as "aloofness" or "indifference" is really just self-sufficiency--a self reliance that has been in their genes and stood them in good stead for centuries. Cats are programmed to rely on their own skills and judgment, never depending on a leader or a group to help them make decisions. Cats do not look to us for supervision or permission, they don't turn to us for affirmation, nor do they accept training, by and large.
TRACIE HOTCHNER
The Cat Bible
Walking is a human habit into which dogs readily fall but it is a distasteful form of exercise to a cat unless he has a purpose in view.
CARL VAN VECHTEN
attributed, Plain and Fancy Cats
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Last Chance to See
There is nothing quite like the presence of a cat in the house to make you feel at home, whether it's a mansion or the tiniest inner city apartment, a rustic cabin or royal palace. Cats are like a little bit of heaven on earth, their purring not unlike the stir of angel wings.
THERESA MANCUSO
Cats Do It Better Than People
Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.
GEORGE TAKEI
Oh Myyy!
Male or female, a cat will show you how it feels about you. People hide their feelings for various reasons, but cats never do.
LEICESTER HEMINGWAY
My Brother
Cats are like guests you're never sure of and are always trying to please.
MARY WELLS LAWRENCE
A Big Life in Advertising
Domesticated felines remain "part-kitten" all through their lives, and even though they may be middle-aged in feline terms they still look upon their human owners as their mothers.
DESMOND MORRIS
Catlore
Men prefer pets they can control, like dogs. They can't handle that "get stuffed" stare from a cat.
CELIA HAMMOND
Evening Standard Magazine, Mar. 26, 1999
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH
The Twelve Seasons
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON
Reader's Digest, vol. 136
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviors. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Interview Magazine, Sep. 1987
Cats invented self-esteem.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, The Cat Fanatic
Cats kept their secrets; they yielded to no one.
ELIZABETH REDFERN
Music of the Spheres
A cat is not merely diverted by everything that moves, but is convinced that all nature is occupied exclusively with catering to her diversion.
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE PARADIS DE MONCRIF
attributed, The Fireside Sphinx
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote