Cat Quotes
There is something about the presence of a cat
.. that seems to take the bite out of being alone. ~Louis J. Camuti
Before a cat will condescend
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By walking slowly
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Eventually it becomes a cat
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Is needed, like a dish of cream
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No heaven will not ever Heaven be
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Past my chair
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Some little token of esteem
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The trouble with a kitten is that
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There has never been a cat
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To treat you as a trusted friend,
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Unless my cats are there to welcome me
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What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens
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When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
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Who couldn't calm me down
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~Author Unknown
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~Ogden Nash
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~Rod McKuen
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth
A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ~Jules Verne
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
Cats do care
For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson
A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate
From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. ~Arthur Bridges
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning
He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. ~Helen Powers
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
Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness
I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. ~Beverly Nichols
A catless writer is almost inconceivable
It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ~Barbara Holland
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult
It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana
~T
S. Eliot
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings
She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. ~Jerome K. Jerome
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human
The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. ~Lloyd Alexander
Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player
The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. ~Sidney Denham
I have studied many philosophers and many cats
The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine
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
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ~Missy Dizick
Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr
Usually all will be forgiven. ~Lenny Rubenstein
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
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming
~Adlai Stevenson
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more
~Agnes Repplier
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats
~Albert Schweitzer
A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope
~Arab Proverb
Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker
~Astrid Alauda
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization
~Author Unknown
Kittens are angels with whiskers
~Author Unknown
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast
~Author Unknown
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city
~Carl van Vechten
The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree
~Colette
It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens
~Cynthia E. Varnado
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person
~Dan Greenberg
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance
~Dan Greenburg
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him
~Dereke Bruce
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it
~Doug Larson
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat
~Edgar Allan Poe
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat
~Ellen Perry Berkeley
Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion
~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif
People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life
~Faith Resnick
Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length
~Frank Perkins
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose
~Garrison Keillor
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow
~George F. Will
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity
~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city
~Italo Calvino
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up
~J.A. McIntosh
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem
~Jean Burden
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds
~Jean Burden
You own a dog but you feed a cat
~Jenny de Vries
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it
~Joseph Epstein
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia
~Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want
~Joseph Wood Krutch
A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather
~Judith Merkle Riley
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten
~Jules Champfleury
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat
~Jules Reynard
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds
~K.C. Buffington
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats
~Lemony Snicket
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch
~Leo Dworken
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously
~Louis J. Camuti
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much
~Mark Twain
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way
~Mark Twain
Cats come and go without ever leaving
~Martha Curtis
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later
~Mary Bly
When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness
~Missy Altijd
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow
~Monica Edwards
If cats could talk, they wouldn't
~Nan Porter
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience
~Pam Brown
Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort
~Paul Corey
Kittens can happen to anyone
~Paul Gallico
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer
~Paula Poundstone
Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan
~Proverb
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats
~Proverb
My cat speaks sign language with her tail
~Robert A. Stern
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons
~Robertson Davies
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
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf
~Roy Blount, Jr.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends
~Saki
People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around
~Susan Easterly
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
~Susan Howatch
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat
~Tay Hohoff
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this
~Terry Pratchett
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat
~Wesley Bates
A cat pours his body on the floor like water
~William Lyon Phelps
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings
~William Ralph Inge