Kinky Friedman Quotes

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

I grew up with dogs Aspins and purebreds eating, sitting and sleeping side by side with us.

If someone was out all day, we wouldn't give them just one cat, because they would be lonely - we would give them two cats.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

One cat just leads to another.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

You are my cat, and I am your human.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.