Quotes about cat
cat numbers enemy
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce. Lloyd Alexander
cat doors practice
He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.
cat names profound
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name. T. S. Eliot
cat
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.
catholic literature classicists
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
cat thinking names
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
cat names mind
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
cat thinking doors
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.
cat house want
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
cat matter difficult
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
cat names pie
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.
cat speak
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
cat like-you enough
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
cat voice wow
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess Scott Westerfeld
cat pet pay
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. Scott Adams
cat law jail
Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. Ray Davies
catholic president united-states
George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States. Rick Santorum
cat monte-cristo
Who are you and why are you my cat? Rick Riordan
cat special want
Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no. Tamora Pierce
cat eye kissing
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.
catholic guilt half
I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt. Robin Williams
cat please
Cats talk to whomever they please. Robin Hobb
cat animal divine
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. Robert Wilson Lynd
cat feet arms
Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet. Robert Crais
cat four knows
Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it. Richard Petty
cat years class
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes. Richard P. Feynman
cat doubt comfort
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. Rebecca West
cat men feelings
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
cat men giving
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. Victor Hugo
cat creation said
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
categorization enjoy happens
i happen to enjoy categorization. Veronica Roth
cat fur waste
I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur. Rita Rudner