Observations on Cats
July 15th, 2005
“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”
- Dave Platt
“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.”
-Unknown
“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.
Cats have never forgotten this.”
- Anonymous
“Cats are smarter than dogs.
You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”
- Jeff Valdez
“In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.”
- English proverb
“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.”
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
“One cat just leads to another.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“Dogs come when they’re called;
cats take a message and get back to you later.”
- Mary Bly
“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many
ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”
- Joseph Wood Krutch
“People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.”-
Faith Resnick
“There are many intelligent species in the universe.
They are all owned by cats.”
- Anonymous
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats.
The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
- Hippolyte Taine
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:
music and cats.”
- Albert Schweitzer
“The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.”
- Ernest Menaul
“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
- Colette
“Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.”
- Missy Dizick
“You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.”
- Colonial American proverb
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm
to ask for what you want.”
-Joseph Wood Krutch
“Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.”
-John S. Nichols