Thomas Huxley Quotes

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

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.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.