Subject: Animals » Cats

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

(1942 – ) humorist & radio broadcaster

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

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

(1964 – ) American comedian

Cats… a standing rebuke to behavioural scientist.


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

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

My sister wanted a cat for a pet… I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

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

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Games You Can Play With Your Pussy

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

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

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

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


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

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

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

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

To err is human; to purr, feline.

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

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

Cats have nine lives… which makes them ideal for experimentation.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor