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Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones.
— Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?
— Théophile Gautier
Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.
— Deyth Banger
...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I picked it up and noticed that its hind legs were crippled in just the same way as Tsering's were when she died. I took this creature into my house and looked after it until eventually it was able to walk. Like Tsering, she was also female, but very beautiful and even more gentle. She also got along very well with the two dogs, particularly Sangye, against whose furry chest she liked to lie.
— Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.
— Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue
I had a dog once. I thought so much of him that when he died I couldn't bear the thought of getting another in his place. He was a FRIEND—you understand, Mistress Blythe? Matey's only a pal. I'm fond of Matey—all the fonder on account of the spice of devilment that's in him—like there is in all cats. But I LOVED my dog. I always had a sneaking sympathy for Alexander Elliott about HIS dog. There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon.
— L.M. Montgomery
I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car.
— Wynne McLaughlin
If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.
— Andrew     Miller, Dub Steps
Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but really, apart from the dragon, the cat is the only creature which can absorb the force. No one knows why a cat absorbs it and what it does with it...
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
The purr is very important. It's the purr that does it every time. It's the purr that makes up for the Things Under the Bed, the occasional pungency, the 4 a.m. yowl. Other creatures went in for big teeth, long legs or over-active brains, while cats just settled for a noise that tells the world they're feeling happy.
— Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat
It is inhuman to humanize animals
—  it is like raising a child in a cage.
When the knowledge of biological fact is conjoined with imagination, on the other hand, one gets facts stranger than most fiction. When biology and morphology combine perspective with religion, they become a chimera of facts that can change the world view of spirituality. Cats bring this blending of biology, morphology and imagination to the prospective table of religious discussion especially. This is so because they have differing physiological functionalities that humans do not. These differences may seem trivial to many but one wonders how these variations would work themselves out in a sapient religion or spirituality centred on these quadrupedal predatory and often nocturnal creatures. Imagine not the cat worship that other religions in the past may have done. Instead, imagine what religion would be like if cats experienced it as sapient beings. The religion's context would take place in the physical form of the domestic cat, not the anthropological form. From the perspective of cats, the mirror of divinity reflected back at them would be quite different.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
The cat is an obligate carnivore and it is in its nature that it must eat meat. This is corroborated by the fact that cat's senses are made for “a crepuscular and predatory niche”. They are hunters, carnivores that show no developmental predisposition for herbivore lifestyle based on the current knowledge of their ancestral and genetic development.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
When addressing religion in morphology the average person will seek religious texts and otherwise human instruments and tools to explain the Universe or their own spiritual experience. Yet human hands are not paws or clawed. Humans are not quadrupeds so texts for cats is kind of out of the question one might think.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Cats, based on their corporeal existence, have a different view on trees even if one dismisses the fruit eating aspect. A closer look at common domestic feline behaviour makes these views spring forth like a kitten pouncing on a ball of yarn. It can be hard to miss.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
The chick last night marked you,” he said, gesturing to my throat. “Might be a stalker. You’ll want to prepare to wake up with your balls removed.” “Raven might cut off my balls, but not because she’s a stalker. More like she’s just in a bad mood or gassy.” Tawny looked at me then shook her head. “Oh, Vaughn. You’re fucked.” “Actually, I was and quite well. In fact, I think she bruised my hip bones.” Laughing, Tawny cuddled against Judd. “When’s the wedding?” Once Judd started laughing, I flipped them off and looked at my menu. “We’re fuck buddies. Nothing more.” Judd nodded. “Makes sense. A man of your stupidity couldn’t handle a relationship. Best to keep your life simple.” “She’s hot. That’s all I care about.” “She is hot,” Tawny said, smiling easier now. “She could probably land a rich guy with those looks.” “Did you just call me poor?” “I only mean she could get someone better than a manwhore with commitment issues.” “Fuck you,” I said and Judd looked ready to hit me. “I could commit if I wanted to. If I wasn’t expecting to die soon, I’d commit all over the fucking place.” “You don’t even have a pet.” “Who would take care of my pet when I died?” “If it was a cat, we’d take it in.” Judd frowned. “No more cats.” “One more wouldn’t hurt. In fact, if we have a bunch of cats, people will stop asking when we’re having a kid.” Judd’s frown disappeared. “Another cat wouldn’t be the end of the world.” “Judd’s the one who can’t commit,” I muttered. “He’s married and we have two cats. We’re plenty committed. You’re the one getting hickeys from a girl who likely will marry someone else in a few months.” “Why a few months?” “I don’t know. I just feel like she’ll be married in a few months. A rich guy.” “Are you psychic now?” “Yes, I’m going to open a shop and tell people their fortunes.” Smiling, Judd kissed her forehead. “A businesswoman. That’s sexy.” “Don’t even think about ditching me again so you two can fuck. You can hump each other later.” “Oh, we will,” Tawny said, waving over the waitress.
— Bijou Hunter, Damaged and the Outlaw
I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats
— Charles Bukowski
The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats
— Charles Bukowski
I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats
— Charles Bukowski
The three months I'd spend with Eddie had taught me many things, and the top two items were (1) A Cat's Purr Makes Everything Okay and (2) The Cat Always Wins.
— Laurie Cass
I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
I already have insurance, a religion, and a newspaper subscription... I'm also... not interested in... aggressive sales of cats...
— Natsuki Kizu, リンクス [Links]
He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at each other in a similar fashion, it was downright unne
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I misse
— Marisha Pessl, Night Film
From birds she learned how to sing
—  from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls
— Terry Pratchett
A cat is always on the wrong side of any door.
— Pam Brown, Cuddly Cats
Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
...after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to take his rightful place in Littlemouse's arms and heard them all in the proper direction.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
That's because they're people, only smarter. They know us better than we know them, and a lot of them have a sense of humor. They're exactly like us minus our useless mental power and thumbs.
— Bob Tarte, Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home
Little cats mean little kids, little kids mean little cats!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.
— Nils Uddenberg, The Old Man and the Cat: A Love Story
I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur.
— Laura Amy Schlitz, The Hired Girl
What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
— Carole Nelson Douglas
The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
Quote taken from Chapter 1:I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the letter tiles. "It's been a week-and-a-half since our last Scrabble game.
— Ed Lynskey, Quiet Anchorage
He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment, [my daughter] Meiping's cat, Fluffy, came through the kitchen door, jumped on the man's leg from behind, and sank his teeth into the flesh of the man's calf.
— Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
And the Lady's mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.
— Anne Bishop, Queen of the Darkness
Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.
— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home
It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad.
— Laurie Cass
A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.
— Helen Brown, Cleo
Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.
— Tom  Cox, The Good, the Bad and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends
The domesticated cat in many homes is a friend, a companion, a family member. It is seen as a symbol of grace and poise both in ancient Egypt and in modern society. Women are oft described as cats as men are described as dogs in metaphor as well. Religious adoration of cats was also in ancient Egypt.1 So in some aspects they have, at least, a religious context. This, though, is not what one should look at primarily for a clear indication of their connection to religion. They are examples of a spectrum of how natural spirituality had developed over time.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
I'm poor and my cat is huge.
— Christopher Moore, You Suck
I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.
— Yasmine Surovec, My Pet Human
Regaring Politics: You’ve got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other
—  someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. —Kinky Friedman
Throughout time, we, as cats, have been worshipped by lower beings such as humans. Nothing has changed.
— Rosie Malezer, CATHOOD: How to be the perfect Cat
Cats can be a very affectionate type of animal, but it's an affection you have to win. Pretty much the way you earn the affection of your friends and your lovers and your wives and your girlfriends and anybody else that's meaningful in your life,' says Des philosophically. 'There's a period of time where you don't know your positioning, and you work for it. And then all of a sudden, the relationship is established and it's yours, it belongs to you, it's something tangible. You can feel it, you can touch it.
— Denise Flaim, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
Greymalkin was no demon familiar; she was a rambunctious cat with the playful temperament of a kitten. On those occasions when Greymalkin decided the Tarot were her playthings, Miriam knew any attempt at a reading would lead to chewed cards, overturned candles, and incense ash tracked across her tablecloth in the form of tiny gray pawprints.
— Chris Dee, World's Finest: Red Cape, Big City
The solution to the feral cats that already exist is the one no one wants to hear: accepting the fact that feral cats will live among us, and taking responsibility for controlling their numbers by trapping, neutering, and returning them to their outdoor territories.
— Denise Flaim, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
When it comes to cats and the people who love them, Des is respectful of the bond, even when it reaches a level most would call obsession.
— Denise Flaim, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.
— Tom  Cox, The Good, the Bad and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends
One of the good things about cats is that, unlike dogs, they don’t come up to you in the street and try to have sex with your leg.
— Tom  Cox, The Good, the Bad and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends
Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.
— Jon Edgell, Drive
Floyd arrived in the kitchen and leapt onto Casper’s back, then proceeded to start biting his neck. I’m an only child with a smallish family who had never done Christmas in a big way, but there was something about having two male cats tenderly humping in the corner of the room that made the occasion a little more festive.
— Tom  Cox, The Good, the Bad and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends
Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
— Irving Townsend
8. The Cat Who Lived in the PalaceThe cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.
— Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
The white cat symbolizes the silvery moon prying into corners and cleansing the sky for the day to follow. The white cat is "the cleaner" or "the animal that cleans itself," described by the Sanskrit word Margaras, which means "the hunter who follows the track; the investigator; the skip tracer." The white cat is the hunter and the killer, his path lighted by the silvery moon. All dark, hidden places and beings are revealed in that inexorably gentle light. You can't shake your white cat because your white cat is you. You can't hide from your white cat because your white cat hides with you.
— William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement."Why should he be?" Kazul said."Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback."What difference does that make to a cat?
— Patricia C. Wrede
LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME INLET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME INLET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME INLET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME INLET ME IN LET ME I-Oh, uh, helloI did not expect an answerI did not expect an entranceI did not expect this room to be so unbelievably dullSo, uh, goodbye
— Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats
Time becomes meaningless without memory.
— Jon Edgell, Resolution
Cats – by day the most docile of God’s creatures, every one of them in the night enlisting under the devil’s banner – took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.
— W.H. Davies, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with his elegant quickness...For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against adversary.For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin & glaring eyes.
— Christopher Smart
Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark’s closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. “I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.
— Zechariah Barrett, The Feline Inheritance
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
— Michael Korda
Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet?
— Erin Hunter, Tigerclaw's Fury
You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?”“Like cat-porn.
— Richard House, The Kills
Loving cats wasn’t like loving skiing or comic books or arthouse films: when you walked into a pub, you usually didn’t feel the need to tell people about it, either stylistically or verbally. I didn’t try to hide the fact that I liked cats, it was just that a lot of the time it was hidden, by custom and by nature.” — Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man, by Tom Cox
— Tom Cox, Pennsylvania Living Trust Handbook: How to Create a Living Trust in Pennsylvania and Save $30k in Probate Fees
As soon as I open this door, I'll be free. FREE! No more goofy cats screaming in my face and eating my shoes. No more biting and scratching and chasing me down the street. Outside this door is a big, wonderful world where goofy cats don't turn into furry whirlwinds that hit me on the head with a spatula. And soon I will be a part of that world once again!
— Nick Bruel, Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray: The Uproar at the Front Door
[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.
— Jon Edgell, Resolution
...staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)
— Stephen King
Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.
— William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.
— David C. Holley, Write like no one is reading
Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.
— Richard House, The Kills
So what about the cats?”“What about them?”“The cats he killed. He killed all those cats. Dumped them in the tank.”“So he didn’t like cats.”“With a slingshot.”“They were strays. Nobody missed them.”“But you don’t kill cats. That’s not normal.”Rino shrugged. “Cats are cats.
— Richard House, The Kills
Often at shelters, we hear, 'I told my child she could get a pet, but she will have to take care of him.' That is an unrealistic expectation and often results in the pet being returned days, weeks, or months later. It is hard for pets to go in and out of a home. They bond with their humans and when they find themselves at a shelter, they become stressed at being taken away from home and the people they love. When an 'easy-way-out' decision is made to give up a pet, we are teaching our children that animals can be given away, turned away, and gotten rid of at the drop of a hat. If you are considering getting a cat or kitten, go into it fully aware that the adults in the home will have to help with the care of the pet.
— Carol Griglione, Animal Rescue League of Iowa for Love of Cats: A Hands on Journey
Ever wonder why your cat jumps on the lap of the guest that doesn't like cats? It is because people who don't like cats will do things cats like during greetings. They squint their eyes, turn their heads and avoid direct contact with the cat. The cat's view is these people are saying hello and being non-threatening, and, sure enough, he ends up on their lap.
— Carol Griglione, Animal Rescue League of Iowa for Love of Cats: A Hands on Journey
TESLA’S CAT[Nikola Tesla’s favorite childhood companion] was the family’s black cat, Macak. Macak followed young Nikola everywhere, and they spent many happy hours rolling on the grass. It was Macak the cat who introduced Tesla to electricity on a dry winter evening. “As I stroked Macak’s back,” he recalled, “I saw a miracle that made me speechless with amazement. Macak’s back was a sheet of light and my hand produced a shower of sparks loud enough to be heard all over the house.” Curious, he asked his father what caused the sparks. Puzzled at first, [his father] finally answered, “Well, this is nothing but electricity, the same thing you see through the trees in a storm.” His father’s answer, equating the sparks with lightning, fascinated the young boy. As Tesla continued to stroke Macak, he began to wonder, “Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? It can only be God,” he concluded.
— W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat with a scrunched-up face. The cat gave her a disgusted look. Or seemed to; it was hard to tell with that face.
— Gail Carriger, Waistcoats & Weaponry
Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
— Jonathon Scott Payne, Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story
Ty rested his hand on Zane’s chest again and closed his eyes. Zane turned his head with infinite care and kissed Ty’s forehead.Wesson gave him a warning growl.“Mine,” Zane told the cat.
— Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes
I like to search for class struggle in strange domains. For example it is clear that in classical Hollywood, the couple of vampires and zombies designates class struggle. Vampires are rich, they live among us. Zombies are the poor, living dead, ugly, stupid, attacking from outside. And it's the same with cats and dogs. Cats are lazy, evil, exploitative, dogs are faithful, they work hard, so if I were to be in government, I would tax having a cat, tax it really heavy.
— Slavoj Žižek
It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger
— Erin Hunter, Dark River
Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.
— Mary Matthews, Splendid Summer
She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.
— Jacqueline West, The Second Spy
He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.
— H.G. Wells
Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay.
— Terry Pratchett
Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.
— F.T. McKinstry, Water Dark
Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
The first thing was not to panic, because all panic does is escalate the problem. (This is the first mistake that people make in situations like this: the cats lose their pee and the humans lose their shit.)
— Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
If you’ve got a cozy mystery, and a dog is introduced, readers’ first question is, ‘Does the dog die?’ They never ask about a cat. They know that the first rule of cozies is: The Cat Never Dies.” – K.B. Inglee, mystery writer
— K.B. Inglee
Bolts of energy swirled in the air and streamed into Dave’s butt. Dave sneezed ... No. He farted through his nose.
— Fred Barnett, Second Chances — I Re-wrote My Life and Improved It! So Can You!
When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.
— Lucy Mangan
Most humans know better than to cross a wizard. A cat does not care.
— F.T. McKinstry, Wizards, Woods and Gods
Cat love is genuine, because it's 10 percent devotion and 90 percent frustration and betrayal. - 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS
— Jack Shepard
Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?
— Darlene Arden, The Complete Cat's Meow: Everything You Need to Know about Caring for Your Cat
We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.
— Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.
— Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places
Cats aren’t special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
— Tamora Pierce, Wolf-Speaker
I wake upto my catsjudging me.They stareblanklyas if to say,"Is this whatyou had in mindfor your life?If it is, you maywant to considersleeping pills ora tall bridgebecause in our view,you're pathetic."Orthey're hungry.
— Pamela August Russell, B Is for Bad Poetry
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
— Terry Brooks, A Princess of Landover
Who would vandalize a doghouse? I ask."Cats?" Bee suggests.
— Paula Stokes, The Art of Lainey
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
— Winston S. Churchill
So, what’s the issue with Unicorns?”“Imagine a cat,” Rose said. “Not just a cat, but a cat that is such a cat, other cats come to it for cat lessons. Take a thousand cats, refine them down to a single drop of pure essence of cat, and make a whole cat out of the stuff.”I shivered. “Ewww. And that’s a Unicorn?”“No,” she said. “That’s an Elf. A Unicorn is a thousand times worse. An Elf you can reason with.
— Bryan Fields, Life With a Fire-Breathing Girlfriend
I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?
— Laura Lam, Shadowplay
A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.
— Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor
Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Well, how we going to sleep with that going on?" his wife demanded, not unreasonably. "Are they making love, or are they sore at each other, or are they just suffering down there?"("I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes")
— William Irish
[Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.
— Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.
— John Hillaby, Journey Through Europe
I close my eyes for a moment and open my inner eye. I stare at Pete, and the thing in his arms. Human. Cat. Human. Cat. No doubled vision: it's a cat, singular. A solitary diurnal ambush hunter with good hearing and binocular vision, and a predilection for biting the neck of its prey in half while disemboweling it with the scythe-like claws on its hind legs. Basically it's a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement.
— Charlie Stross
When you set out, you were four. Six with friends who could not stay behind. Now you are one.
— Erin Hunter, Midnight
If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.
— John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter
Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
— Tamora Pierce (Author), Lioness Rampant
I’m like a cat. I swear I havenine lives
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Deity
Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- Mrrrrwwwwww", said the monstrous little necessity.
— Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
Look, cat, you and I are never going to be friends. She’s going tocall you Max, but I’m going to call you Shit Head. And if you think forone second—” The cat lies down in a tight little ball of nastiness andfalls asleep. “Oh, please. Make yourself at home by sleeping on myscrotum.” I peek out into the sitting room area that connects to thefour bedrooms, and then glance back at the kitten. Releasing a sigh ofdiscontent, I pet Shit Head with one finger. He purrs extra hard, andI find myself wondering if I could train him to do things. Every heroneeds a sidekick, and I’m nothing if not a Grade-A Hero. - Dante Walker
— Victoria Scott, The Warrior
Cats will be cats.
— Morrissey, Autobiography
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.
— Wendy Beck, 9th Life
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she told them. The cats gave her an affronted look, turned their backs, and began making indignant little noises at each other.
— Patricia C. Wrede, Searching for Dragons
Having played to her heart's content, Chibi would come inside and rest for a while. When she began to sleep on the sofa--like a talisman curled gently in the shape of a comma and dug up from a prehistoric archaeological site--a deep sense of happiness arrived, as if the house itself had dreamed this scene.
— Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.
— Tiziano Scarpa, Venezia è un pesce. Una guida
Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?
— Caroline Paul, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.
— Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
I have a Siamese twin cat. It's got 2 heads and 18 lives.
— M.J. McGuire
There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
— George Orwell
I've got a Siamese cat. It has 2 heads and 18 lives.
— M.J. McGuire
When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.
— Caroline Paul, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.
— Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.
— R.S. Vern, Haee's quest for the greater prairie
Dogs own space and cats own time.
— Nicola Griffith, Hild
Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan—and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself.
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep. A cat, however, is never without the potentialities of contentment. Like a superior man, he knows how to be alone and happy. Once he looks about and finds no one to amuse him, he settles down to the task of amusing himself; and no one really knows cats without having occasionally peeked stealthily at some lively and well-balanced kitten which believes itself to be alone.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior
I would not have survived that dark time if it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart.
— Erin Hunter, Secrets of the Clans
This will not be the end of the Clans. As long as I have breath in body, the Clans will be safe.
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior
You can not live with a paw in each world.
— Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
Cats don’t have names,” it said.“No?” said Coraline.“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.
— Neil Gaiman
Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we come from!
— Erin Hunter, Sunset
She's a skilled and swift fight, and I know she'll pass on her training on to you.
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior
More water will flow before we join StarClan. This is not an end. This is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.
— Erin Hunter, Dawn
... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Dovepaw made a mess of the hunting, true. But she ran to help a Clanmate in trouble when she had no idea what danger she would have to face on the other side of that bramble thicket. And when we couldn't get Icecloud out of the hole, she was quick to volunteer to be lowered down to help her, even though no cat really knew what might have been down there.
— Erin Hunter, Sign of the Moon
I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in…could you tell me what she’s thinking?’‘I can tell you what she’s thinking right now, no touching necessary,’ I drawled. ‘She’s thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you.’ …Every cat that was awake when I’d smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that.
— Rob Thurman, All Seeing Eye
Why do I prefer cats to dogs? I have never stepped in cat shit.
— Robert  Black
The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
— Hippolyte Taine
My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay
— Larry Smith, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous  Obscure
This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.
— Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds
In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First World War revolver, more reliable, he said, than a shotgun. The gun sounded again, again, again, again. The cats that were still uncaught had sensed their fate and were raging and screaming all over the bush, with people after them. My father came out of the room at one point, very white, with tight angry lips and wet eyes. He was sick. Then he swore a good deal, then he went back into the room and the shooting continued. At last he came out. The servants went in and carried off the corpses to the disused well. Some of the cats had escaped – three never came back at all to the murderous household, so they must have gone wild and taken their chances. When my mother returned from her trip, and the neighbour who had brought her had gone, she walked quiet and uncommenting through the house where there was now one cat, her old favourite, asleep on her bed. My mother had not asked for this cat to be spared, because it was old, and not very well. But she was looking for it; and she sat a long time stroking and talking to it. Then she came out to the verandah. There sat my father and there I sat, murderers, and feeling it. She sat down. He was rolling a cigarette. His hands were still shaking. He looked up at her and said: ‘That must never happen again.’ And I suppose it never did.
— Doris Lessing, On Cats
A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly.
— Jonathan-David Jackson, The Quest for Juice
If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.
— Chris Kelly, Downton Tabby
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.
— Heather Hacking, How Cats Conquered the World
I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, mangy, caterwauling pain in the ass! I'd rather have the thing in bed with me than see it suffer on my account...though when it comes to human beings, I'm only interested in the sick...the ones who can stand up are nothing but mounds of vice and spite...I don't get mixed up in their schemes...
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Normance
The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!
— Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms andfeet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to closeoncemore, it really helps to know these things, to know youradvantagesand your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.
— Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.
— Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.
— Beverley Nichols, Garden Open Tomorrow
Purr more, hiss less
— Linda C. Marchman
Roen said, "I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.
— Wesley Chu, The Lives of Tao
There is no known cure for severe affection for one's cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack.
— Tichakorn Khroopan Hill
The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
— Robin McKinley, Shadows
In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to take it away. The Cait Sidhe take a more direct and bloody approach to succession than most of Faerie.
— Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
my cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it
— Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Might I not be able to love God in the ways that Katie was loving me? A desire to be close, to be in touch, to receive strokes and caresses from the Eternal, to feel warm and safe and comfortable with God? Was this not exactly what I longed for -- the experience of stretching out, so to speak, on the breast of God, purring in contentment, safely supported by the everlasting arms?
— Don Holt Jr.
When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
She loves the smell of his fur, all warm and musky and cat-spit clean.
— Sara  Stark, An Untold Want
No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.
— Lilian Jackson Braun
Jenny lacked any sense of property - she was constantly apologising to Yevgenia and asking for her permission to open the small upper window in order to let in her elderly tabby cat. Her main interests and worries centered around this cat and how to protect it from her neighbors... She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called 'my dear, silver child' The cat adored her; he was a rough sullen beast, but would become suddenly animated and affectionate when he saw her.
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.
— Shannon Celebi
I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.
— Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child
I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.
— Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter
Well, that's just what I'm talking about. All Maslow would need to do is rub against your legs and start purring, and you'd immediately forget all this Hitler/Card nonsense. No one does PR like a cat. Why do you think I'm so desperate to hire him?
— Manny Rayner
Hers was an unconditional love– so long as you kept the food coming. Realizing that what attracted her to me needn’t have been anything more complicated than my having a warm body to nestle in and plentiful food in her bowl, still I felt that she loved me because at least a warm body was something I was already. Being loved for something I already was, no matter how surface oriented, was still better than being loved for the person I might be changed or mistakenly perceived to be.
— Tommy  Walker, Monstrous: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer But for the Grace of God
An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel?No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.
— Michael  Grant, Fear
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness
You know, Professor, this stray kitten and you have one very important thing in common.''I can't imagine,' responded the professor coolly.'Your life is the most important thing in the world to you,' said His Holiness. 'Same for this kitten.
— David Michie, The Dalai Lama's Cat
Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.
— Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum