Bette Midler Quotes

I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

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.

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.

I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.

We need to bring awareness to how great of a pet cats are.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.