Quotes About Cats

by Joi on September 12, 2009

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Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look has either never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. – Maurice Burton

I allow my cats to express themselves, never interfere with their romances, and raise them with dogs to broaden their outlook. – Murray Robinson

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. – Jean Burden

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. – Lynn M. Osband

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. – James Mason

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

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. – Ellen Perry Berkeley

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. – Robert A. Heinlein

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, 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 kind. – Cleveland Amory

My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.- Colette

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.- Arthur Symons

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.- Mary Bly

A meow massages the heart.- Stuart McMillan

The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. – Bruce Schimmel

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world – the clock and the cat. – Emile Auguste Chartier

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat. – Leo Dworken

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. – Roger Caras

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. – George F. Will

A meow massages the heart. – Stuart McMillan

Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by 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. – James Gorman

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. – Martin Buxbaum

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. – Winifred Carriere

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

There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. – Wesley Bates

The trouble with cats is that they’ve got no tact. – P. G. Wodehouse

Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. – Stephen Baker

I’m aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. – Megan Coughlin on why she’d make a good cat

With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? – Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. – Eleanor Clark

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

If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. – Mark Twain

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. – Leonardo da Vinci

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

You can’t own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. – Sir Harry Swanson

There are no ordinary cats. – Colette

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. – William Lyon Phelps

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn’t just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I’m mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names… – T.S. Eliot

The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. - Michael McGarel

When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? – Montaigne

After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.- Charlotte Gray

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner. – Gary Smith

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. – George Mikes

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes

You own a dog but you feed a cat.- Jenny de Vries

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.” – Missy Dizick

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it’s affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular. – Helen Thomson

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. – Anonymous

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.”- Sarah Thompson

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. – Paul Gray

One must love a cat on its own terms.- Paul Gray

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens. – Abraham Lincoln

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later. – Mary Bly

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. – Geoffrey Household

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. – Joseph Wood Krutch

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? – Fernand Mery

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