C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.”
Source: A celebration of cats
“Cats make terrible publicists. Hire me instead.”
“Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen.”
“Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.”
Source: On Cats
“Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
“Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.”
Source: The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays
“Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.”
“Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.”
Source: The Cat Who Went Underground
“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.”
Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.”
Source: Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine Artist
“Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.”
“Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.”
“Cats only have nine lives, but sages have a thousand.”
“Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”
“Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.”
Source: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
“Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
“Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.”
Source: The Tiger in the House
“Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.”
“Cats sleep fat and walk thin.”
“Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.”
“Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!”
“Cats splash in sunlight like ducks in water. Both animals find your conversation so stimulating they could just nap.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!”
“Cats talk to whomever they please.”
“Cats, tea and candles,
is all the therapy,
I will ever need.”
Source: The Frowny Face Cow
“Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.”
Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives
“Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.”
Source: Cat is Watching
“Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.”
“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.”
Source: Spindle's End
“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.”
Source: Spindle's End
“Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.”
“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”
“Cats.'
'What about them?'
'They've got a parasite. Toxoplas-something.'
Nora knew this. She had known this since she was a teen, doing her work experience at Bedford Animal Rescue Centre. 'Toxoplasmosis.'
'That's it! Well, I was listening to this podcast, right...and there's this theory that this international group of billionaires infected the cats with it so that they could take over the world by making humans dumber and dumber. I mean, think about it. There are cats everywhere.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Cats! What have we learned from these naughty boys of our world? They have taught us that we are important and that we must make ourselves happy!”
“Cats will always lie soft.”
“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.”
“Cats will be cats.”
Source: Autobiography
“cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.”
Source: Written on water: a novel
“Cats will outsmart dogs every time.”
“Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans.”
“Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.”
Source: La scrittura dell'eternità dorata
“Cats. You can't live with them, and the fur's too thin for a rug.”
“Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.”
“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.”
“Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.”
Source: The Fireside Sphinx
“Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but roll their eyes at the owners who expect their cats to do things for them.”
Source: Joyce Jillson's Astrology for Cats