<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cats - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this.  A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5342]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with the approach of winter that cats... wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day--   Confound the cats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316]]></link><description><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318]]></link><description><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will miss the insinuated nose,   Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5307]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5312</guid></item></channel></rss>