Quotes on Cats

"When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even." ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched"
~Miguel de Cervantes

Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it."--Robert Heinlein

Lordyeti-(19sumthin to 20sumthin) Once accidently/purposely shot a tree full of cats with arrows and killed five, he was then made to eat two of those cats, barbequed, by his father because of the stupidity of the statement " i accidently/purposely killed five cats with my bow":'(

Some that are mad if they behold a cat...

Now for your answer:
As there is no firm reason to be rendered
Why he cannot abide ...a harmless, necessary cat,

~ Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice: Shylock's speech to the Court.

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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

~ Raymond Chandler.

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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

~ Leonardo da Vinci.

Looking for your cat? Try under my wheels!"
Bumper sticker seen in my local shopping mall car park.

I urged that kings were dangerous. He said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive, finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house...The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.

~ Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

I'm being followed by a moon shadow...

-Cat Stevens

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
--Saki

"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."

- Mark Twain

"Stop touching yourself."
--Ceiling Cat

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"The starring actress, when confronted by Gaspode the wonder dog, says she is a ‘cat person’, Gaspode under his breath, says ‘wash in your own spit, do you?"

Anon, ref: Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

RASCAL ON THE ROOF
(Muriel Manton)

Cat careless of catastrophe
Recumbent reclining on russet roof,
Baffled by bumble bees'
Flight pell-mell surpassing reproof.
Rascal on the rampage
Bluffed by buzzing bumble bee,
Settling softly on silver sape,
Flurried feline, fly and flee!

Originally posted by Patrick97
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How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

"Of all God's creatures, there is only o ...[text shortened]... ome to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne