Top 40 Jim Davis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.”

— Jim Davis

2. “In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.”

— Jim Davis

3. “It’s amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn’t know what one can’t do.”

— Jim Davis

4. “Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”

— Jim Davis

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5. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

— Jim Davis

6. “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”

— Jim Davis

7. “Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.”

— Jim Davis

8. “When all else fails, look cute.”

— Jim Davis

9. “Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that’s ok, because you can’t afford it anyway.”

— Jim Davis

10. “It’s not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.”

— Jim Davis

11. “Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me.”

— Jim Davis

12. “He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.”

— Jim Davis

13. “There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.”

— Jim Davis

14. “I’m still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn’t suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.”

— Jim Davis

15. “Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.”

— Jim Davis

16. “An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.”

— Jim Davis

17. “You’d have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.”

— Jim Davis

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18. “Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”

— Jim Davis

19. “I never met a lasagna I didn’t like.”

— Jim Davis

20. “I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I’m afraid it might not come back.”

— Jim Davis

21. “When in doubt, pig out!”

— Jim Davis

22. “Deep fry that sucker! – Garfield.”

— Jim Davis

23. “There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.”

— Jim Davis

24. “I thought you were dead, Mr. McCandles.”

— Jim Davis

25. “My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.”

— Jim Davis

26. “I stop short of being a workaholic.”

— Jim Davis

27. “We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting.”

— Jim Davis

28. “When you’re through with your cat, you can’t throw it in the trash.”

— Jim Davis

29. “The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.”

— Jim Davis

30. “You have to do something when you’re lying in bed. So you play with your mind.”

— Jim Davis

31. “Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.”

— Jim Davis

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32. “I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.”

— Jim Davis

33. “Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.”

— Jim Davis

34. “Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.”

— Jim Davis

35. “I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.”

— Jim Davis

36. “I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.”

— Jim Davis

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37. “I didn’t have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.”

— Jim Davis

38. “I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.”

— Jim Davis

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39. “I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn’t worn off – I still feel like I’m making up for lost time.”

— Jim Davis

40. “Don’t eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat.”

— Jim Davis