8.24.2010

an unhealthy amount of cat quotes

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

"Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep." - John Dobbin

"Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner." - Gary Smith

"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat." - Michael McGarel

"You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same." - Jack Wright

"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

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."- Helen Thomson

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

"There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person." - Dan Greenberg

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." -Garrison Keillor

"A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish". - James Gorman

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr." - Martin Buxbaum

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley

"Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat." - Emile Auguste Chartier

"Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog." - Eleanor Clark

"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain

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

"Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner." - Stephen Baker

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." - Jules Verne

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" -Theophile Gautier

"Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." - John Weitz

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." -Faith Resnick

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

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer." - Paula Poundstone

"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him." -Drew Barrymore

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds." - KC Buffington

"If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?" - Unknown

"To err is human, to purr is feline." -Robert Byrne

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

"A cat can purr its way out of anything." -Donna McCrohan

"The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. - Bruce Schimmel

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."- Hazel Nicholson

"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique."- Jenny de Vries

"People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote."- Charlotte Gray

"I purr, therefore I am." - Anonymous

"People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet." - Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.

"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." - Desmond Morris

"Some people own cats and go on to lead normal lives." - Unknown

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

"Cats Are Not impure; they keep watch about us." - The Prophet Mohammed


Just notice how many of the people are famous or artists...

3 comments:

Candis and Ryan said...

uh...Sarah...that many quotes on cats? It makes me miss you.

Tairsa said...

Wow Sarah, um bored much? Ha ha, that's pretty good. I hope you grow up and have a million cats!

Anonymous said...

No!! you and your cat quotes..

-Mark