Cat Quotes - Page 27

• Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Laughing

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• You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Kids, Simple

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin, 1997.

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• I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Optimistic, Views

  "At age 79, Hefner keeps things real". "Live and Direct" with Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Thinking

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• Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Race, Class, Justice

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Animal, Teeth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

  Stephen King

  Fathers Day, Mother, Two

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

  Ricky Gervais

  Death, Suicide, Fire

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• I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

  Ben Whishaw

  Good Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Humble, Animal

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• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Pleasure, Sweetest

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

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• The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Swimming

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

  Norbert Wiener

  Witty, Mathematical, Models

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• Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
  "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
  "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
  "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
  "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
  "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

  Lewis Carroll

  Crazy, People, Mad

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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• In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lions, Kitten, Curious

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.129

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• I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

  Rod McKuen

  Past, Quiet, Chairs

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• With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Dog, People, Bigs

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

  Doris Lessing

  Owl, Paws, Praying

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• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Mind, Kingdoms

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• Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sleep, Sky, Contentment

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Tongue, Smooth, Sponges

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• The thing about cats, as you may find,
  Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

  John Ciardi

  Mind, Might, Knows

  "You read to me, I'll read to you".

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• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Vanity, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

  Doris Day

  Havens

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