A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume…

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.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

I have an abnormally shaped brain. According to neuroimaging, my brain looks like a curled up sleeping kitten. That’s how I make love like meow.

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!

I wish there were a vending machine that served cats. Not to eat, but to pet during my work break.

I’m putting the finishing touches on a cat. I love petting.

I’m not sitting around doing nothing. I’m busy petting the cat. Why hasn’t anybody told the philosophers that this is the meaning of life?

The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes – cat lovers and the underprivileged.

I had a dream about you. I was a consumer, and you were a consumed. My grocery list had 10 items on it. Items 1-9 were cat food, and the 10th item was condoms. But...

The End of the Raven”On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slantingI awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found...

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.

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.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Soy un gato, un ser extremadamente sensible a los más sutiles cambios en la mente o el alma del mundo. Y, naturalmente, necesito dormir más que el resto.

Summer is discouraging. So many cats are pregnant.

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.

i wish cats could float around your head

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory...

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (…)

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,”...

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.

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?”Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize...

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you’re into it, you’re into it for a lifetime.

Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon’s dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small...

I am the All Three Cats of love, and if you had to choose, you’d be wise to pick the middle one.

Cats like to cuddle more than any other living creature, including zombies, which are only half dead.

He’s like my best friend. And I say that only because I have no real friends, and Cap’n is a great listener (he never interrupts when I’m talking—and I’m always the one doing all the...

Do I have cat hair on my face? I was trying to grow out my beard. Let’s make love like two meows trapped in a Ziploc bag.

According to a poll conducted by ilovecatsandjarodkintz.com, Jacksonville’s favorite pet is the cat at 100 votes to 0 for dogs, birds, fish, or peeves.

Most humans know better than to cross a wizard. A cat does not care.

I’m sort of a girly guy in that I love cats, rainbows, sunsets, flowers, trees, and sex. But not sex with trees.

From CATS ARE KIND”I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;On and on he sped.I was puzzled by this;I accosted the dog.’If you catch one,’ I said’What will you do with it?”Dumb cat,’ he cried,And ran on.

Fire will save the Clan

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Mister didn’t come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn’t, in which...

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,Ou va-ti mistigri?Passe sans faire de mai ici.

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...

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there’s a hole nearby.

Cats are cats . . . the world over!These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.-James Mackintosh Qwilleran

As if on cue, a line of silhouettes emerged from behind a desert scrub—shapes that moved like cats. They wandered through the landscape of corpses, touching each with a gentle nudge. They grew closer, and...

A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn’t just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.First...

[At the scene of a murder]The cats’ bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young–well maybe sometimes for sport. But...

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Roen said, “I can’t quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren’t.