George Takei Quotes

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

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.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

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

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

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

I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

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

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

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

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

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.