Wisdom, by, about, or exemplified by cats.
Cats have incredible vision - but they never see your flaws.
- Anonymous
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
- Louis Wain
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard
cats.
- Anonymous
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing,
for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
- Will Cuppy
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or
another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
- Ernest Hemingway
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
no other way.
- Mark Twain
A person who manages to understand a cat is qualified to understand most
anything else.
- Anonymous
A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk.
- Anonymous
By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
- Colette
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement,
and love without penalties.
- W. L. George
Cats whiskers are so sensitive, they can find their way through the narrowest
crack in a broken heart.
- Anonymous
Don't use cats - they'll screw up your data.
- Anonymous science professor to student
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
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way
of a whole human being.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable
deceit, for a great control over myself, for a characteristic aversion
to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long period of time.
- Colette
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon
our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
- Martin Buxbaum
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never
your slave.
- Theophile Gautier
Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of
presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats.
Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they
have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our
eyes.
- Gilbert Gude
Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.
- Don Addis
Owning a cat is a good forerunner of marriage. You learn that you cannot
control another living being, or expect him/her to do everything you want.
- Anonymous
The cat has nine lives - three for playing, three for straying, and three
for staying.
- Anonymous
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence
keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
- Carl van Vechten
Those who will play with cats must expect to get scratched.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage
to live by them.
- Jim Davis
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and
courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of
becoming cats?
- Fernand Mery
You can't help that. We're all mad here.
- The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here,
they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon
our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
- Martin Buxbaum
Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
- Byron Nelson
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