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.

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.

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.

Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did…Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

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.

A university campus is a community just as any other. If the community has a problem with free roaming cats, they have a responsibility to deal with it over the long term.

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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...

Who would vandalize a doghouse? I ask.”Cats?” Bee suggests.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

I’m a sucker for curiosity’s whims.Does that make me a cat person?

She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess so used to being ministered to that she no longer notices the servants and sees only a world where objects dumbly bend to her wishes, doors opening, faucets discharging cool water,...

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

People happily kill other people in the name of everything from a god to a country to an overly developed sense of annoyance when someone cuts across two lanes on a freeway without signaling. Cats will, on occasion, kill other cats but for the most part they are content to puff up their furr, yowl...

By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.

After the group vet appointment–during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room–we went back to Sabrina’s and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

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...

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute,& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it

You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

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!

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”. “- Mrrrr”, said the monstrous little necessity.

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...

Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time;He’s a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before Queen Victoria’s accession.Old Deuteronomy’s buried nine wivesAnd more – I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;And his numerous progeny prospers and thrivesAnd the village is proud of him in his...

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

I thought maybe she’d whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible.”Oh, yes,” she purred. “I like this one! Come along, children.””But this isn’t yours,” I pointed out.”My dear, I’m a cat. Everything I see is mine.” She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked....

When a cat flatters … he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

Whether it’s just a pesky little annoying behavior you’d like to tweak or a major problem that has you at the end of your rope, you must shift your thinking in order to look at the possible true cause, as well as determine whether its truly a behavior problem or a normal behavior that needs...

After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

I’ve found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person’s character

I’ve found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person’s character

The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf.~Kane Tyler~

The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I’m absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don’t go, there’ll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.

And how do you know that you’re mad? “To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” I suppose so, said Alice. “Well then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag...

There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one…

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

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.

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.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

If life gives you the wobbles make jelly.