Subject: Animals » Cats

To err is human; to purr, feline.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

My Big Book of Pretty Pussies

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy.

(1880 – 1964) American writer & photographer

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Why don’t they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

A cat walking into a room containing twelve seated people will jump into the lap of the person who hates cats the most.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they’re really doing is saying, “I can’t knit, get this away from me!”

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.

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.

(1855 – 1924) English writer

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

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

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

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

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Cat: A lap warmer with a built-in buzzer.

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

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

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