Lewis Thomas Quotes

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

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

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

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

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

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

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

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it