@kittehboi curates animal-related quotes.
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Quote: Jules Verne on Cats
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.— Jules Verne, source unspecified.
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Quote: Tom Nichols on Cats
Superstitions are especially prone to confirmation bias, and they survive because common sense and confirmation bias sometimes reinforce each other. Are black cats unlucky? Cats, black or otherwise, by their nature tend to get underfoot, but we might only remember the black ones who trip us up. I actually live with a lovely black cat…
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Quote: William S. Burroughs on Cats
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.— William S. Burroughs, “The Cat Inside“
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Quote: Peter S. Beagle on Cats
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn who may be…
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Quote: Charles Bukowski on Cats
when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns— Charles Bukowski, On Cats
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Quote: Ray Bradbury On Cats
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to…
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Quote: Heinlein on Cats
You don’t own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take dogs; dogs are friendly and fun and loyal. But slaves. Not their fault, they’ve been bred for it. But slavery makes me queasy, even in animals.― Robert A Heinlein, Farham’s Freehold
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Quote: William S. Burroughs on Cats
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don’t think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn’t…
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Quote: Mark Twain On Cats
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.— Mark Twain, source unspecified.
