Cat Quotes - Page 30

• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Laughing, Dialect

  4 Copy quote

• I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Wagner

  "Jimi Hendrix, in his own words: 'I dig Strauss and Wagner - those cats are good'" by Jimi Hendrix, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

  George Benson

  Music, Jazz, Pleasure

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Stars, Jazz

  37 Copy quote

• Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Writing, Poetry, Trying

  10 Copy quote

• Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  4 Copy quote

• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Dance, Innocent, Presentation

  6 Copy quote

• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  8 Copy quote

• If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Party, Two

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Race, Class, Justice

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Rose, Bud, Pity

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.204, Xist Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

  Beatrix Potter

  Dust, Names, Once Upon A Time

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales”, VM eBooks

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

  Oliver Herford

  Sorrow, May, Today

  Oliver Herford, “Song”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• [My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

  William Cowper

  Shells, Delight, Suits

  4 Copy quote

• ... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

  William Cowper

  Bears, Kitten, Should

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.157

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

  William Cowper

  Loss, Reflection, Hilarity

  "The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

  William Cowper

  Would Be, Incredibles, Kitten

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.267

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.

  Laura Dern

  Bad Mood, Easy, Mood

  4 Copy quote

• What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Gold, Female

  1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23-4.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source