Collection of Favorite Quotes About Cats
Read the best cat quotations and proverbs
written by famous authors and celebrities.
- To please himself only, the cat purrs." - Irish Proverb
- "It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens that what ever you say to them, they always purr." - Lewis Carroll (English Writer)
- "If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence." - Will Cuppy (American Writer)
- "The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence." - Edward Paley (1786-1847)
- "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." - Garrison Keillor
- "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." - Margaret Mead
- "Honest as the Cat when the meat's out of reach." - Old English saying
- "A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world." - Irish Legend
- "There are no ordinary cats." - Colette
- "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." - Leonardo da Vinci
- "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
- "Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one." - Thomas Fuller
- "If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed." - Winifred Carriere
- "How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein
- "Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier
- "Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott
- "Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement and love without penalties." - W. L. George
- "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind." - Cleveland Amory (from: The CAT Who Came For Christmas)
- "The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." - Carl Van Vechten
- "There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten." - Jules Champfleury
- "Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves." - Mary Wilkins
- "Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." - John Weitz
- "A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do." - Bill Adler
- "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln
- "I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
- "Some cats are blind and stone deaf but ain't no cat wuz ever dumb." - Anthony Henderson Euwer
- "Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use." - Mark Twain
- "A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?" - Mark Twain
- "If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air." - Doris Lessing
- "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
- "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez
- "People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." - Faith Resnick
- "There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - Anonymous
- "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
- "Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." - Dave Platt
- "Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
- "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." - Jules Reynard
- "Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat." - Emile Auguste Chartier
- "I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
- "A cat can purr its way out of anything." - Donna McCrohan
- "I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible." - R.H. Blyth, from Zen and Zen Classics V4
- "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." - Unknown
- "As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley
- "I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic!" - Unknown
- "It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?" - Eleanor H. Porter
- "Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit." - Unknown
- "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch
- "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American proverb
- "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly
- "One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway
- "The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menaul
- "Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God." - Unknown
- "Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated... Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries. - Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory)
- "To bathe a cat requires brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction... and a cat. The last ingredient is the hardest to come by." - Stephen Baker
- "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." Albert Schweitzer
- "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi
- "God made the cat in order to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger." - Unknown
- "Dogs have owners, cats have staff." - Unknown
- "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Unknown
- "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau
- "A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan
- "If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favourite cat, they, too, would purr." - Martin Buxbaum
- "The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world." - Lynn M. Osband
- "Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything." - Hank Ketchum
- "Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick
- "Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives." - Stephen Baker
- "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." - Ernest Hemingway
- "There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat." - Tay Hohoff
- "Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them." - Jim Davis
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