Alley Cats Quotes:

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

topic: Cat, Men, Pet, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

source: "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

topic: Cat, Insomnia, Pet, Inspirational Cat, Cat Love

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Death, Nice, Small Gods, Good Omens

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Memories, Cat, Past, Paw Prints, Alleys

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

- Don Marquis

topic: Cat, Life Is, Kitten, Alley Cats

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.

- Eve Merriam

topic: Stars, Home, Cat, Dainty, Alley Cats

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime ***** try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

- Big L

source: Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

topic: Giving Up, Crazy, Book, Nighttime, Notches

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

- Don Marquis

source: 1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

topic: Cat, Zest, Sea, Demure, Alley Cats