Cat Quotes - Page 15

• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Glasses, Trying

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Men, Names

  "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Part VII: On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books)". Book edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1917.

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• When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, High Heels, Office

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Law, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Dogs have their day but cats have 365.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Dog, Pet

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• It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

  Pierre Loti

  Winter, Air, Fur

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• If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.

  Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Grace, Tails, Pharaohs

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

  Rupert Brooke

  Night, Cities, City Life

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dog, Mind, Machines

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• Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

  James Patterson

  Baptists, Hell, Raises

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• Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Adults, Prejudice

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Dog

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

  John Grogan

  Dog

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• When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Covering

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• With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

  Akif Pirincci

  Thinking, Sound, World

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• Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Trying, Scratches

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• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor
  and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nature, Moving, Cities

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, People, Style

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 158), October 2008.

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tin, Paws, Come Up

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• One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Reason, Newspapers

  "In the Mecca: poems".

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• Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Names, People, Who We Are

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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