C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.”
“Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.”
“Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.”
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
“Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi”
“cats choose us; we don't own them”
Source: House of Night Series
“Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.”
“Cats definitely have their own opinions.”
“Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”
Source: The Cat Inside
“Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.”
“Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.”
Source: Day in and Day Out
“Cats do not try to be funny; they just behave as themselves which are funny by birth!”
“Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“Cats don’t have names,” it said.
“No?” said Coraline.
“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”
There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.
Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.”
“Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.”
“Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.”
Source: Collected stories, 1948-1986
“Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.”
“Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode”
Source: The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
“Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.”
“Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.”
“Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.”
Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja
“Cats, flowers and people! They all want to be close to the window and so windows never feel lonely!”
“Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.”
“Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.”
“Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.”
Source: The Cat Who Went Underground
“Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?”
Source: Two Cats, Three Tales
“Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.”
“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.”
“Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.”
Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever
“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”
Source: The Tiger in the House
“Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.”
“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”
“Cats have nine lives, but sage's have a thousand.”
“Cats have nine lives, but sages have a thousand.”
“Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.”
“Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“Cats invented self-esteem.”
“Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.”
“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'”
“Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.”
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”
“Cats know not how to pardon.”
“Cats know to always blame the dog, the humans will believe it every time and so will the dog.”
“Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.”
“Cats learned how to fly that evening.”
Source: Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure
“Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.”
“Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.”
“Cats like men are flatterers.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.”
“Cats make cuddly pets, but you can’t take them for walks. That’s why I love my pet waterfall, which also makes the splashiest snuggles. However, neither cats nor waterfalls lay eggs, which makes ducks the superior jazz musicians.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.