Quotes & Sayings About Cat Curiosity

The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely botuliform, which means sausage-shaped and is a more useful word than you might think. The other word is botulism.
Sausages may taste lovely, but it's usually best not to ask what's actually in them. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was a sausage-maker who disposed of the body. — Mark Forsyth

Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity. — Agatha Christie

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better. — Kate Morton

Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life. — Rhi Etzweiler

So, what did you learn?
Curiosity asked the Cat, then
poked her carcass with a stick. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass. — Michael J. Fox

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat. — Studs Terkel

She had something Adam didn't. Curiosity. First step to growth
and if it wasn't for Eve's Adam would still be sitting by the side of the pool picking his nose and scratching his scalp, bamboozled by his own reflection. Off in her part of Eden, Eve hadn't bothered naming the animals. On the other hand she'd discovered how to milk some of them and how best to eat the eggs of others. She'd decided she wasn't overly keen on torrential rain and had built a shelter from bamboo and banana leaves, into which she'd retire when the heavens opened, having set out coconut shells to catch the rainwater with a view to saving herself the schlep down to the spring every time she wanted a drink. The only thing you won't be surprised to hear about is that she'd already domesticated a cat and called it Misty. — Glen Duncan

Curiosity never killed this cat' - that's what I'd like as my epitaph — Studs Terkel

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. — Eugene O'Neill

Can't say I'm surprised you were here. You have the curiosity of a cat and the common sense of a goldfish. — Susan Dennard

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don't wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.

--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam's wisdom...and Her Secret — Stan Sudan

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. — Steven Wright

Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy. — Stephen King

Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back. — Tamora Pierce

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. — Laird Barron

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. — Terry Pratchett

It has been said that nature does not know extinction. In effect, it knows only change: nothing ever truly disappears, for there is always something - some part, some particle, some formidable semblance - left behind. You can boil water into vapor, but it hasn't disappeared. Curiosity killed the cat, but condensation brought it back. — Ronald Malfi

Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same. — Lois Greiman

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. — Harry Lorayne

I'm glad to hear you got what you came for," he drawled slowly, trying to capture Brenna's undivided attention, "but actually it's a little hard to believe. You're still empty-handed." He motioned at her hands and the small satchel she carried. "Whatever you came for must be in there? Am I right?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Mr. Rose, did anyone ever tell you that curiosity killed the cat?"
He let go a laugh that spooked a flock of common yellowthroats from a fir tree along the road. They swooped into the sky and Brenna's lips curled up as she watched them fly away. She was softening...
"Yes, they have, Mrs. Lane," he said. "They most surely have. But I've also been told that satisfaction brought it back. What about you? — Caroline Fyffe

Run out of cat food, so he set down the bowl so Tiger could have some sustenance. The cat sniffed the contents with curiosity but turned his nose up at it. "Come on, Ty, it's all that we have. And it's got milk-type products in it." The cat met his eyes with malicious intent, accusing him of a poisoning attempt, — Pauline Creeden

Curiosity improved the cat — Brandon Nankivell

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.
Does that make me a cat person? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Curiosity did NOT kill the cat; conventionality did. — Lisa Laird DiRosso

Well, we have a saying where we come from," said Louise. "Curiosity killed the cat." "And satisfaction brought him back," Been added. — W. D. Newman

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat? — Gemma Malley

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king. — Kim Harrison

They say curiosity killed the cat but I am unconcerned. I am smarter, though slightly less evil, than any cat. — Eliza Crewe

I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet. — Barbara Kingsolver

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. — Holly Black

When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy. — Geoffrey Wood

A truly curious person is curious to know why curiosity killed the cat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I may not read tea leaves or palms, my lady, but it is easy enough to read faces. Yours is a questioning face, always looking for answers, always seeking the truth, for yourself and for others." I smiled at her. "I think that is a very polite way of saying I am curious as a cat. And we all know what happened to the cat - curiosity killed her." Rosalie took the last slice of cake onto her plate. "Yes, but you forget the most important thing about the little cat," she said, giving me a wise nod. "She had eight lives left to live. — Deanna Raybourn

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat. — Bryan Davis

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. — Eugene O'Neill

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back? — Stephen King

Curiosity killed the cat". I had been one of those annoying children who constantly asked why after being told anything. It seemed that even as an adult I couldn't let things go. I had to dig deeper. I had to find out why. — Carrie Cox

Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess. Or because I'm the cat curiosity is scheduled to kill in approximately six hours. — Lindsey Ouimet

You have the curiosity of a cat and common sense of a goldfish. — Susan Dennard

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this? — Sheena Hutchinson

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! — C.J. Cherryh

Curiosity killed the cat. — Eugene O'Neill

He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws. — Walter Moers

What's the old saying? Ah, I remember now. 'Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.' That's the one. — Simon Holt

Fear of curiosity kills the cat ... slowly. — Brian Spellman

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition. — Sam Walton

(1) Curiosity killed the cat.
(2) The World's Largest Ball of Twine is a curiosity.
(3) Therefore the World's Largest Ball of Twine killed the cat. — David Foster Wallace

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious. — Brittany Murphy

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. — Arnold Edinborough

Haven't you ever heard curiosity killed the cat?'Keeley asked as she pulled onto Laura's street.
'Good thing I'm a dog then huh?'Talon answered dryly. — Lindsey Summers

Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Not enough info makes for a lot of dead cats."
"Dead cats?"
"You know, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I have enough curiosity to start a feline genocide."
"Feline genocide?"
"Yeah. If you don't explain Apollo, the cat kingdom will crumble. Cats all over the world will suddenly plop down in unmoving masses of fur, their food will dry up in smelly chunks of fish, and when people call, 'Here, kitty kitty kitty,' no cats will come running; they'll just-" Walter suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked.
Walter stared straight ahead. "I just realized . . . if all those things happened, no one would notice the difference." ~Walter~ — Bryan Davis

Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity. — Angela Carter