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"The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way."
--Mark Twain

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Famous Cat & Kitten Quotes

An extensive collection of famous cat & kitten quotes throughout history. These quotes are the list used in the random cat quote generator used on the Timberkatz.com web site. The quotes are listed by author in alphabetical order.

"Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male."
-- Aristotle

"Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun."
-- Lloyd Alexander

"Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives."
-- Stephen Baker

"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him."
-- Drew Barrymore

"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat."
-- Wesley Bates

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
-- Ellen Perry Berkeley

"Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic."
-- Lillian Jackson Braun

"Cats allow us to love them, for which we should be duly grateful."
-- Anne Taylor Brown

"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."
-- Pam Brown

"To err is human, to purr is feline."
-- Robert Byrne

"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."
-- Jules Champfleury

"What greater gift than the love of a cat?"
-- Charles Dickens

"Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog --a cat's a cat."
-- T. S. Eliot

"The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names."
-- T.S. Eliot

"You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me."
-- T.S. Eliot

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything including the people they own."
-- John Digman

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is."
-- H.G. Frommer

"Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you."
-- Theophile Gautier

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"
-- Theophile Gautier

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."
-- Paul Gray

"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."
-- Paul Gray

"One must love a cat on its own terms."
-- Paul Gray

"One cat just leads to another."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"There is no cat 'language'. Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one."
-- Barbara Holland

"Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort."
-- Leigh Hunt

"His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having."
-- Michael Joseph

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-- Doug Larson

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"A meow massages the heart."
-- Stuart McMillan

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart"
-- Ernest Menaul

"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?"
-- Montaigne

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."
-- Hazel Nicholson

"You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense."
-- Jane Pauley

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

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

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
-- Terry Pratchett

"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life."
-- Faith Resnick

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
-- May Sarto

"The furry little buggers [cats] are just deep, deep wells you throw your emotions into."
-- Bruce Schimmel

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
-- Hippolyte Taine

"All cats love a cushioned couch."
-- Theocritus

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."
-- Helen Thomson

"A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."
-- Sarah Thompson

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain

"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
-- Mark Twain

"The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way."
-- Mark Twain

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

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

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

"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
-- Mark Twain

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God."
-- Jeff Valdez

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old."
-- Carl Van Vechten

"Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there's a bowl of milk in it for them."
-- Robin Williams

"You can't help that. We're all mad here."
-- The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland


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