Subject: Animals » Cats

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

Cat: A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Cats… a standing rebuke to behavioural scientist.


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

The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are still in the cat.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

When a cat ignores you, you think “that's on you” … when a dog ignores you, you think “you saw into my dark soul.”

(1982 – ) American comedian & actress

We’ve a cat called Ben Hur; we called it Ben till it had kittens.


To err is human; to purr, feline.

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

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

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

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

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

I’m fond of pigs… dogs look up to us… cats look down on us… pigs treat us as equal.

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

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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you strapped toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Cat: A pygmy lion who loathes mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet