Cat Quotes - Page 19

• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Dog, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

  Terry Brooks

  Princess, Apologizing, Pleasure

  Terry Brooks (2009). “A Princess of Landover”, p.135, Del Rey

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• Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they are like children in their power of discovering, by a rapid and sure instinct, who likes them and who does not. It is difficult to win their affection; and it is easy to forfeit what is hard to win. But when given, their love, although less demonstrative, is more delicate and beautiful than that of a dog.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Beautiful, Dog, Children

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• Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Egypt, Class, Erring

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• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Wind, Pet, Done

  "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses".

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• I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Records, Walks, Right Now

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Sleep, Piano, Ledges

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• The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Woods, Wilderness

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.141, Graphic Arts Books

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• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  Confucius

  Dark, Black, Rooms

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  Ursula Andress

  Life, Flower, Sunshine

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• When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Real, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

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• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  'Just So Stories' (1902) 'The Cat that Walked by Himself'

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• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Dog, France

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• Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Thinking, Sheep, Turtles

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Trying, Different

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  Richard Land

  Grandmother, Aunt, Texas

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• I think cat's are fantastic.

  Danielle Dax

  Thinking, Fantastic

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• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Ted Nelson

  Struggle, Ideas, Trying

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• And how do you know that you're mad?

  Lewis Carroll

  Mad, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

  Caryl Chessman

  Nine, Feels, Know How

  Caryl Chessman (1957). “The Face of Justice”

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• Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

  Matt Groening

  Moon, Thinking, Feelings

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• Very few people have no opinions about cats.

  Barbara Holland

  People, Opinion

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Animal, White, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Dark, Men, Black

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