Cat Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

  Vance Packard

  Horse, Fun, Good Friend

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• Cats are a waste of fur.

  Rita Rudner

  Fur, Waste

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• People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Character, Independent

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.122, Ballantine Books

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• King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Kings, Character, Men

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• What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Men, Virtue

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• A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

  John Updike

  Secret, Computer, Share

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• Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")

  Terry Pratchett

  Doors, Views, Phases

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hunts, Ifs, Seals

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Poison, Needs

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Animal, Fire

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Territory, Way

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, Tv Shows, What If

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

  Norbert Wiener

  Witty, Mathematical, Models

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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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