Top Cat Quotes Collection - Page 15

Discover a curated collection of Cat quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 15 provides more Cat quotes.

Image of Theodore White
With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
- Theodore White
Collection: Cat
Image of Rick Riordan
We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Christopher Paolini
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
- Christopher Paolini
Collection: Cat
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Cat
Image of Steven Pinker
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Cat
Image of William Shakespeare
Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Cat
Image of Steven Wright
Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
- Steven Wright
Collection: Cat
Image of Erin Hunter
I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name.
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Cat
Image of Natsuki Takaya
It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!
- Natsuki Takaya
Collection: Cat
Image of Henry David Thoreau
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Cat
Image of Alexander Pope
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Cat
Image of Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
- Mark Twain
Collection: Cat
Image of Jeaniene Frost
...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave
- Jeaniene Frost
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Evelyn Underhill
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
- Evelyn Underhill
Collection: Cat
Image of Garth Nix
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
- Garth Nix
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Cat
Image of Rick Riordan
My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Cat
Image of Voltaire
The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.
- Voltaire
Collection: Cat
Image of Lewis Thomas
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.
- Lewis Thomas
Collection: Cat
Image of John Steinbeck
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Cat
Image of Alan Watts
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
- Alan Watts
Collection: Cat
Image of Barbara Mertz
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
- Barbara Mertz
Collection: Cat
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Cat
Image of Garth Nix
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget. "Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.
- Garth Nix
Collection: Cat
Image of Terry Pratchett
Man just went past with a cat on his head.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Cat
Image of Prince Philip
Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'
- Prince Philip
Collection: Cat
Image of Peter S. Beagle
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
- Peter S. Beagle
Collection: Cat
Image of Peter S. Beagle
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
- Peter S. Beagle
Collection: Cat
Image of Erin Hunter
All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Cat
Image of Erin Hunter
Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Cat
Image of Erin Hunter
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Cat
Image of Erin Hunter
Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Cat
Image of Steven Pinker
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Cat
Image of Miguel de Unamuno
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Collection: Cat
Image of Jim Butcher
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.
- Jim Butcher
Collection: Cat
Image of Susanna Clarke
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Cat
Image of Carl Sagan
If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Cat
Image of Nina Simone
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.
- Nina Simone
Collection: Cat
Image of Nalini Singh
I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.
- Nalini Singh
Collection: Cat
Image of Rick Riordan
So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Cat
Image of Studs Terkel
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
- Studs Terkel
Collection: Cat
Image of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Collection: Cat
Image of John Ray
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
- John Ray
Collection: Cat
Image of John Ray
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
- John Ray
Collection: Cat
Image of Wendy Mass
Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.
- Wendy Mass
Collection: Cat