“Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!” MenMindBlackAnimalCatCrowSuperstitiousOwlOminousBlack Cat Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.” HumansI CanFeelingsAnimalCatSincerity Author:Emily Bronte
“It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.” MenWorldHumansIdeasAsksBlackWhiteAnimalDogConceptsCatMiracleMajoritySpeciesObviousFoolishMistakenJehovah Author:George Gaylord Simpson
“In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.” MatterAnimalQualityCatFaultsSpite Author:Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.” HumansPainSufferingDiesDifferencesHuman BeingsPleasureAnimalKnowingDogCatWorthyInteractionDevotedWoePain And PleasureCat And DogAtmanHuman Beings And Animals Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.” MenWellsArtHumanityThreeAnimalPoorMankindCatBeastSheepSophisticatedWormsPerfumeSilkLearWool Book:The Tragedy of King Lear Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.” MenHeartFormNightAnimalDevilCat Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to Catalina Island or Catalonia, Spain, or Katmandu, or wherever the hell your hairy ass is from! 'Cause this is America and around here - Katmandon't.” KnowsCountryAmericaCausesAnimalHellBeatsCatAssIslandsSpainIndigenousCataloniaDomesticated Animals Author:Arj Barker
“They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino.” AnimalCatLapRhinos Author:Dana Gould