Cat Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

Learn, Tail, Carries

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

Religion, Care, Dog

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Understand, Why

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Learn, Hold

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

Improve, Crossed

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

Lie, Between, Lives

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain

Lie, Between, Lives

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

Black, Path, Animal

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

Wish, Write, Mysterious

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Care, Cannot

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll

Help, Said, Here

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers

Whole, Bag, Easier

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

While, Curiosity, Suspect

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Bob Dylan

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

God, Real, Trying

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

Help, Black, Dark

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone, Protocol, Considers

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields

Down, Clever, Cheese

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

Him, Ignore, Run

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield

Played, Kept, Covering

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
Ray Bradbury

Writing, While, Favorite

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire

Love, Music, Trying

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Caring, Nation, Alive

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

Beautiful, Eyes, Hair

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping

Long, Black, Matter

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo

Life, Human, Between

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli

Home, Morning, Husband

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Through, Earth, Sure

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