The Literary Cat

[glynndah]

I found this cute little book at the Goodwill store. There are "quips, quotes and observations" about cats. Here are a few I liked.

"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal." Sir Compton Mackenzie - English writer

"No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow." William Conway - Archbishop of Armaugh

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." Leonardo daVinci - Italian artist

"My little grandson is a darling, but he can never take the place of my cats." Anonymous American grandmother

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." Mark Twain - American writer

"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion." Fernand Mery - French writer

"A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem." Jean Burden - American writer

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air." Doris Lessing - English writer

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." Abraham Lincoln - American president

"In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats." English proverb

Any more you'd like to add?

 

[rgraham666]

Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

 

[glynndah]

Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

Along that same line:

A dog thinks, "This person feeds me, pets me and gives me shelter. He must be God."

A cat thinks, "This person feeds me, pets me and gives me shelter. I must be God."

 

[RogueLurker]

"Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it."
Camille Paglia

 

[glynndah]

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." Joseph Wood Krutch - American writer

 

[SeaCat]

Thousands of years ago humans worshiped Cats as Gods. Cats have never forgotten that.

Cat

 

[Dar~]

"With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."- Charlotte Gray


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


As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. - Cleveland Amory

 

[cloudy]

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
~ unknown

"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat."
~ Mario Andretti

"The cat is a dilettante in fur."
~ Theophile Gautier

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken."

"Cats think that if they can't see you, then you can't see them."

And ofcourse...

"I'm a cat,
I'm a kittycat!
And I dance, dance, dance,
and I dance, dance, dance!
I'm a cat,
I'm a kittycat!
And I meow, meow, meow,
and I meow, meow, meow!"

 

[glynndah]

At dinner time he would sit in the corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say "Time to feed the cat," as if it were their own idea. Lillian Jackson Braun - American writer

 

[TE999]

"If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on a back of a cat and drop it?"
Stephen Wright.

"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in heaven."
Robert A. Heinlein.

 

[starrkers]

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. (Mark Twain)

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Mary Bly)

Cats don't have to be put on pedestals -- they put themselves there. (Anonymous)

 

[scriptordelecto]

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

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat." -Warren Eckstein

"If cats could talk they wouldn't." -Nan Porter

"You own a dog but feed a cat." -Jenny de Vries

"The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world." -Lynn M. Osband

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." -Anonymous

 

[glynndah]

The cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - American writer

 

[Kev H]

This is a related cat-lovers site (well, mostly cats since they are the coolest animal on the planet), shared with you because of the wonderful jammies.

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/