Cat Behavior Quotes

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

A lot of cats are not that social.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

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

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

I have a cat named Dandelion.

She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred to her. "Cats like to get as high up as possible. In case we have to pounce on something." "Great," I said. "So if we have to pounce, we're all set.

Cats are a waste of fur.

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

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

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

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