"Qotable" Cats 1

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever,
and generally stopping before it gets there." ~ Agnes Repplier

"A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem." ~ Jean Burden

"A cat is much like a vintage wine that is enhanced with age." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them." ~ Sidney Denham

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up
and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering." ~ William S. Burroughs

"A cat is often repelled by high energy, even if it involves an invitation.
That is why a cat does not always live up to a person's minute-by-minute expectations."
~ Carole Wilbourn

"A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write
with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat;
they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen
and walk on the typewriter keys." ~ Barbara Holland

"A cat pours his body on the floor like water.
It is restful just to see him." ~ William Lyon Phelps

"A cat's best friend is his teddy bear." ~ Garfield

"A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude." ~ Jules Champfleury

"A cat's worst enemy is a closed door." ~ Unknown

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive.
A tomcat has it so easy; he has only to spray
and his presence is there for years on rainy days." ~ Albert Einstein

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson

"A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself
and does a damned impressive job of it." ~ Joseph Epstein

"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody.
A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him." ~ Jean Burden

"A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin." ~ Unknown

"A loving cat can mend a wounded heart." ~ Anonymous

"A kitten is the rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom." ~ Robert Southey

"A cat sees us as the dog. A cat sees himself as the human." ~ Unknown

"A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark." ~ Louis MacNeice

"A sleeping cat is ever alert." ~ Fred Schwab

"A cat is nobody's fool." ~ Heywood Brown

"A cat's got her own opinion of human beings.
She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make
you anxious not to hear the whole of it." ~ Jerome K. Jerome

"A cat is quick to learn anything that concerns its own welfare." ~ William H. A. Carr

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty:
human beings, for one reason or another,
may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." ~ Ernest Hemingway

"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased,
which is more than can be said for human beings." ~ William Ralph Inge

"A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion." ~ Samuel Palmer

"A little lion, small and dainty sweet with sea-grey eyes and softly stepping feet."
~ Graham Tomson

"A cat's purr is the sound of it generating cute." ~ Unknown

"A cat doesn't 'roll' well with a change of someone else's making." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"A cat doesn't know what it wants and wants more of it." ~ Richard Hexem

"A cat's behavior is a direct reflection of his feelings." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double;
the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays.
She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something." ~ Andy Rooney

"A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat." ~ Linda W. Lewis

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." ~ Ben Franklin

"A cat playing around is normal behavior;
a cat playing on your head at four o'clock in the morning
is not appropriate behavior from a human point of view." ~ Dale Olm

"A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to."
~ Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.

"A cat is there when you call her -- if she doesn't have something better to do." ~ Bill Adler

"A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it."
~ Frank Perkins

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather." ~ Judith Merkle Riley

"A cat can purr its way out of anything." ~ Donna McCrohan

"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat,
may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?" ~ Mark Twain

"A cat is never vulgar." ~ Carl Van Vechten

"A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand." ~ Vakaoka Genrin

"A cat will assume the shape of its container." ~ Unknown

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." ~ Groucho Marx

"A cat ... would check to see if you brought anything to eat, and if not,
would turn and walk away, tail held high." ~ Mike Deupree

"A meow massages the heart." ~ Stuart McMillan

"A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun.
Her high self-sufficiency is her charm." ~ Charles Horton Cooley

"A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person." ~ Mugsy Peabody

"Actually, cats are QUITE good at domesticating people." ~ Unknown

"Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog--a cat's a cat." ~ T. S. Eliot

"All cats are grey in the dark." ~ Thomas Lodge

"All cats are possessed of a proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat
is to treat him as an inferior being." ~ Michael Joseph

"Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player.
The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent,
that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly
if you want the game to continue." ~ Sidney Denham

"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
~ Andre Norton

"Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes.
Some day there might actually be something there." ~ Anonymous

"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
~ Andre Norton

"A child is a person who can't understand why
someone would give away a perfectly good kitten."
~ Doug Larson

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