Robert A. Heinlein Cat Quotations

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.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

There is no such thing as "Just a cat.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

All cats are not gray after midnight.