Top 1200 Black Cat Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her"...[later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her." "If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will... The price is more than a cat can pay.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.

Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.

The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat.

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

If I want to know how to do a black cat eye, I don't drive to a department store. I'll go on YouTube, cross-check reviews of a product, and then maybe talk about it on Instagram.

It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.

You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.

It's aspirational for me. I've lived as a cat lady. I'm happy to be a cat lady. I'll continue to be a cat lady. Just bring them all to my house, and I'll keep them all, no problem.

Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution.

I am a cat person, although when I was a child we had a loony cat that was terrifying; if you hadn't fed it, it would chase you round the house.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.