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.

The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem.” This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

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

Cats are useless.

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

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

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...

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a...

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He’d surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl,...

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, “Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

There is no ‘cat language.’ Painful as it is for us to admit, they don’t need one!

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...

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement....

I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences between man and cat: man knows he’s going to die, so he can...

There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.

Yesterday I complained of chest pains. My cat scratched my nipples.

Cats are geniuses, because they know that looking out windows is better than watching Reality TV.

My love is a six-toed mutant, like a Hemingway cat. Pet it wisely.

This book has nothing to do with cats. Or mice. Or self-motivation. This book is 100% 50% finished. But don’t worry, I finished the good half. But don’t be mistaken—the good half isn’t good at...

Be careful with this one” said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. “All cats are half jinn, but I think she’s three quarters.

Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. We all crooned at it. Alan [Rickman] to cat (very low and meaning it): ‘Fuck off.’ The nice lady didn’t...

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

Everything I tell her reminds her of some cute anecdote about one of her previous jobs, or previous boyfriends, or previous lives, or her cat, Sparkles, who is mitten-toed and sleeps on her head and...

I’ve got a Siamese cat. It has 2 heads and 18 lives.

cats choose us; we don’t own them

Dogs own space and cats own time.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Fucking nightmares.My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and...

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

I had a dream about you. I was a cat. You were a red dot. And even those times I caught you, we couldn’t touch. But still I chased you anyway.

Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones — In fact, he’s remarkably fat.He doesn’t haunt pubs — he has eight or nine clubs,For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat!He’s the Cat we all greet as...

Alice: I didn’t know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn’t know that cats could grin.Duchess: They can, and most of ’em do.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks...

…I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.

Bluestar’s coming on patrol? Watch out for flying hedgehogs!

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If...

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...

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

It takes me a while to drag him out, he’s got himself stuck to the axle, and by the time I am done and stand over the body something strange has started to happen. The...

It’s not fun to pet cats when you’ve already poured gravy on them, and you’re holding silverware.

A meow’s a sound I want to look at. And after I see it, I want to pet it.

It’s raining cats and dogs. Good thing meows and barks bounce off my umbrella, and I just poured a large cup of love in the left cup of your bra when you weren’t looking.

A tongue, if used the wrong way, can cause serious injury or even death. Politicians are famous for misusing their tongues this way. However, tongues can also be cleansing agents, making the most of a...

Cats are meowable gloves you don’t wear, you pet to keep your hands warm. But I keep my hands warm the old-fashioned way—by applauding all the political rhetoric coming out of Washington DC.

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only...

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

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...

Dogs have hair. Cats, fur.Dogs whine, yip, howl, bark. Cats purrr.I say: No contest.