Cats Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

Terry Pratchet, Sourcery

In the night all cats are gray.

Miguel de Cervantes

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.

Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplie

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Missy Dizick

If toast always lands butter - Side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Steven Wright

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

Stephen Bake

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert A. Heinlein

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.

David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

Poets generally love cats - - Because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Marion Garretty

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni.

American Indian Prove

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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