quotations about cats
We have to afford cats the same sort of dignity we do with a human.
NICK DOUGLAS
"How to Get a Cat to Like You", lifehacker, August 22, 2018
We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Lathe of Heaven
The moral charm of the cat consists in one's complete inability to fathom their minds and motives. A dog's mind is generally a clear and straightforward affair. You can never discover what strange things are passing in a cat's brain. You know that a dog is looking up to you, following your whims and reflecting your fancies--is, in a word, intellectually dependent upon his master. Not so with a cat. The cat is never the servant of your hand and eye. She may deign to play with you, but it is always with reserves complete enough to save her own individuality and freedom of action. The cat plays with you as much as you with her.
"The Cat in Literature,"
Living Age, vol. 217
Cats are like the French: meals are very important to them, and they want to savor the experience without interruptions.
KIM CAMPBELL THORNTON
Your New Cat
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
One feels so immensely flattered when chosen by a discriminating cat, for it is an affection which can only be won by merit, and never bought. A dog will love any wreck of humanity who chances to own him, but one needs to be self-respecting to earn the love of a cat. Pussies show their regard in such dignified little ways. When you open the hall door your cat will come half way down stairs to meet you, and will then turn and walk up before you with tail erect, and you feel as heartily welcome as though a dog had jumped all over you and knocked your hat off in the exuberance of his greeting. You notice cats never follow, never even walk by your side--they precede by a sort of divine right.
KATE A. HALL
"Cat Farming in California"
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON
Reader's Digest, vol. 136
Black cat come visit me, I don't care what people say
I saw your hazel eyes, sparkling in the moonlight
Black cat one day things will change, I'm gonna wipe away your bad name
My friend tells me you're no good, and I say hey I'm not afraid
ZIGGY MARLEY
"Black Cat", Love Is My Religion
Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.
JAMES PATTERSON
Cat & Mouse
Cats kept their secrets; they yielded to no one.
ELIZABETH REDFERN
Music of the Spheres
Confront a cat with something he has never seen before and his first reaction will almost invariably be one not of fear but of curiosity.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
Cat's Company
The naming of cats is a difficult matter;
It isn't just one of your holiday games.
You may think at first, I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
T. S. ELIOT
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Sexual Personae
Cats are like guests you're never sure of and are always trying to please.
MARY WELLS LAWRENCE
A Big Life in Advertising
Cats invented self-esteem.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, The Cat Fanatic
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.
DORIS LESSING
The Old Age of El Magnifico
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
GARRISON KEILLOR
attributed, The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts
If dogs are like high school, cats are like a really tough Ph.D. program.
SIOBHAN ADCOCK
30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30
Mystery has always shrouded the feline. The cat is a powerful, agile hunter moving silently through the night, stalking its prey; or a calculating thinker that has incredible patience when setting its trap, yet is impatient with unwanted acts of affection from humans. The cat is a creature of great beauty, defying gravity with athletic feats and supreme acts of grace. From the ancient Egyptians to the Shakespearian era and into modern times legends of the cat have grown into extraordinary myths.
ALEXANDRA POWE ALLRED
Cat's Most Wanted