Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

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.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

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

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog.

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.