A cat ... plays for her own enjoyment, in a self-contained way, with no desire to share. Shut her up alone, and a ball, a fringe, or a looped piece of string is enough to make her give herself up to silent and graceful sport. While she is playing she does not say, "Man, I'm so awfully glad I've got you here!" She will play beside the bed of a corpse. - Karel Capek
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. - William Inge
A cat in gloves catches no mice. - French Proverb
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson
A cat knows how to anticipate. - Roger Caras
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him. - William Kunstler
All nations seem to have appreciated the mysterious and almost human qualities of cat nature; the profound cunning, the impertinent indifference, the intense selfishness, yet capable of the most hypocritical flatteries when some point has to be gained. Their traits are not merely the product of brute instinct with unvarying action and results, but the manifestation of a calculating intellect, akin to the human. Then their grace and flexile beauty make them very attractive; while the motherly virtues of the matron cat are singularly interesting as a study of order, education, and training for the wilful little kitten, quite on the human lines of salutary discipline.... For cats are thoroughly well-bred, born aristocrats; never abrupt, fussy, or obtrusive like the dog, but gentle, grave, and dignified in manner. Cats never run, they glide softly, and always with perfect and beautiful curves of motion; and they express their affection, not violently, like the dog, but with the most graceful, caressing movements of the head. - Lady Wilde
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. - Robert A Heinlein
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reason. - Robertson Davies
Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself." - Rudyard Kipling
Cats accept the improvements that we make in their lives but they do not accept that we should have any control over them. People can give safety, sustenance, and comfort to a cat, but both sides know she could walk out tomorrow and find her own way if it came to that. The underlying independence that keeps a balance of power between people and their cats is the source of our fascination with our feline family members. But it's really helpful to keep in mind that you need to accept your cat as she is--and for who she is. - Tracie Hotchner
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. - Richard Aldington
Cats are like supermodels; they want you to please them. - Emily Yoffe
Cats are like that, as we all know, full of little nooks and crannies where secrets may hide. - Roger A. Caras
Cats are like the French: meals are very important to them, and they want to savor the experience without interruptions. - Kim Campbell Thornton
Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please--on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard--and they really couldn't care less how their behaviour affects the people in their lives. - Caroline Knapp
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cute, 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
Cats choose us; we don’t own them. - Kristin Cast
Cats don’t like change without their consent. - Roger A.
Cats don't care if you're gay or straight, what your religion is, or whether you're conservative or liberal. They don't care if you're a few pounds overweight. Cats aren't threatened if you earn more than they do. Cat's don't have problems expressing affection in public, and if you piss 'em off, they walk away. - Glenda Moore
Cats have a consuming passion for watching human beings. - Akif Pirincci
Cats invented self-esteem. - Erma Bombeck
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
Dogs and horses are our slaves; cats never. This does not prove them without affection, as some people seem to think; on the contrary, it proves their peculiar and characteristic dignity and self-respect. Women, poets, and especially artists like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems. - Helen Maria Winslow
Finding a cat – or having a cat find you – can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more. - Kinky Friedman
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 saviours. - Charles Bukowski
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them. - Douglas Adams
If the cat waits for long hours, silent beside the crack of the wainscot, it is for pure pleasure. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase. - Oswald Barron
In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this. - Unknown
It does not matter if the cat is blaci or white; the cat that catches the mouse is a good cat. - Deng Xiaoping
Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay. - Jane Hirshfield
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
Man has been worshiping cat for centuries and cat has every intention of keeping it that way. - John Ticker
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. - Thomas Fuller
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
Scalded cats fear even cold water. - Thomas Fuller
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 could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Dough Larson
The cat is not in the long run anxious to please. - T. O. Beachcroft
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch. - Francois Rene
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. - Chaucer
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. - Unknown
The sound of the cat mesmerizes, calms the chattering mind, stills the anxious heart. - Theresa Mancuso
The uncertainty of cats has been thrown in their teeth, but to the true cat-lover this uncertainty is a most attractive trait. One may live in a house for six months with a cat and never receive from it a single kindly word or look. It will perhaps sit quietly on your lap as long as you hold it there, for it hates struggling; but the moment your vigilance is relaxed down it jumps, and licks itself carefully, as a sign that your caresses are anything but agreeable. It will purr when you go down on your knees on the hearthrug and rub it under the chin; but it is purring at itself, not you. Your hand is only a stroking machine. It is not in the least afraid of you, but in a hundred ways it shows that it has no use for your caresses, and that it would rather not be encumbered by unasked attention. Yet, suddenly, and without any cause, this very same cat will one day become, for half an hour or an hour, your dearest friend. - Unknown
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
There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence.... Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure. - Wendy Christensen
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. - Miguel de Cervantes
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
When a mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. - Unknown
You know what cats are like – fast on their feet and not very grateful. - Helen Magee
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. - William Inge
A cat in gloves catches no mice. - French Proverb
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson
A cat knows how to anticipate. - Roger Caras
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him. - William Kunstler
All nations seem to have appreciated the mysterious and almost human qualities of cat nature; the profound cunning, the impertinent indifference, the intense selfishness, yet capable of the most hypocritical flatteries when some point has to be gained. Their traits are not merely the product of brute instinct with unvarying action and results, but the manifestation of a calculating intellect, akin to the human. Then their grace and flexile beauty make them very attractive; while the motherly virtues of the matron cat are singularly interesting as a study of order, education, and training for the wilful little kitten, quite on the human lines of salutary discipline.... For cats are thoroughly well-bred, born aristocrats; never abrupt, fussy, or obtrusive like the dog, but gentle, grave, and dignified in manner. Cats never run, they glide softly, and always with perfect and beautiful curves of motion; and they express their affection, not violently, like the dog, but with the most graceful, caressing movements of the head. - Lady Wilde
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. - Robert A Heinlein
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reason. - Robertson Davies
Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself." - Rudyard Kipling
Cats accept the improvements that we make in their lives but they do not accept that we should have any control over them. People can give safety, sustenance, and comfort to a cat, but both sides know she could walk out tomorrow and find her own way if it came to that. The underlying independence that keeps a balance of power between people and their cats is the source of our fascination with our feline family members. But it's really helpful to keep in mind that you need to accept your cat as she is--and for who she is. - Tracie Hotchner
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. - Richard Aldington
Cats are like supermodels; they want you to please them. - Emily Yoffe
Cats are like that, as we all know, full of little nooks and crannies where secrets may hide. - Roger A. Caras
Cats are like the French: meals are very important to them, and they want to savor the experience without interruptions. - Kim Campbell Thornton
Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please--on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard--and they really couldn't care less how their behaviour affects the people in their lives. - Caroline Knapp
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cute, 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
Cats choose us; we don’t own them. - Kristin Cast
Cats don’t like change without their consent. - Roger A.
Cats don't care if you're gay or straight, what your religion is, or whether you're conservative or liberal. They don't care if you're a few pounds overweight. Cats aren't threatened if you earn more than they do. Cat's don't have problems expressing affection in public, and if you piss 'em off, they walk away. - Glenda Moore
Cats have a consuming passion for watching human beings. - Akif Pirincci
Cats invented self-esteem. - Erma Bombeck
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
Dogs and horses are our slaves; cats never. This does not prove them without affection, as some people seem to think; on the contrary, it proves their peculiar and characteristic dignity and self-respect. Women, poets, and especially artists like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems. - Helen Maria Winslow
Finding a cat – or having a cat find you – can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more. - Kinky Friedman
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 saviours. - Charles Bukowski
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them. - Douglas Adams
If the cat waits for long hours, silent beside the crack of the wainscot, it is for pure pleasure. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase. - Oswald Barron
In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this. - Unknown
It does not matter if the cat is blaci or white; the cat that catches the mouse is a good cat. - Deng Xiaoping
Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay. - Jane Hirshfield
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
Man has been worshiping cat for centuries and cat has every intention of keeping it that way. - John Ticker
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. - Thomas Fuller
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. - Alexander
Powe Allred
Scalded cats fear even cold water. - Thomas Fuller
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 could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Dough Larson
The
cat in gloves catches no mice. - Benjamin Franklin
The cat is not in the long run anxious to please. - T. O. Beachcroft
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch. - Francois Rene
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. - Chaucer
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. - Unknown
The sound of the cat mesmerizes, calms the chattering mind, stills the anxious heart. - Theresa Mancuso
The uncertainty of cats has been thrown in their teeth, but to the true cat-lover this uncertainty is a most attractive trait. One may live in a house for six months with a cat and never receive from it a single kindly word or look. It will perhaps sit quietly on your lap as long as you hold it there, for it hates struggling; but the moment your vigilance is relaxed down it jumps, and licks itself carefully, as a sign that your caresses are anything but agreeable. It will purr when you go down on your knees on the hearthrug and rub it under the chin; but it is purring at itself, not you. Your hand is only a stroking machine. It is not in the least afraid of you, but in a hundred ways it shows that it has no use for your caresses, and that it would rather not be encumbered by unasked attention. Yet, suddenly, and without any cause, this very same cat will one day become, for half an hour or an hour, your dearest friend. - Unknown
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
There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence.... Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure. - Wendy Christensen
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. - Miguel de Cervantes
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
We
own a dog – he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish
him to be. But we entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a
guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there. It is
no compliment to be the stupidly idolized master of a dog whose
instinct is to idolize, but it is a very distinct tribute to be
chosen as the friend and confidant of a cat. - H.
P. Love craft
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
When a mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. - Unknown
Who
among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily
life and to relax completely? - Karen Brademeyer
You know what cats are like – fast on their feet and not very grateful. - Helen Magee
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