Subject: Animals » Cats

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.

(1821 – 1867) French poet, essayist & art critic

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page.

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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There are no seeing eye cats, of course, because the sole function of cats, in the Great Chain of Life, is to cause harm to human beings.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A child is a person who can’t understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look whether they’ve seen a moth or an ax murder.

(1959 – ) American comedian

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

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It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

All dogs look up to you; all cats look down to you… only the pig looks at you as an equal.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

No matter which side of door the cat or dog is on, it's the wrong side.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats.

(1964 – ) American comedian

Cats… a standing rebuke to behavioural scientist.


Nature abhors a vacuum… but not as much as cats do.

I just gave my cat a bath; now how do I get all this fur off my tongue?

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician