CAT Quotations sayings witty bon mots

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
(Unknown)

Avoid dogs whenever you can. Remember... Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral

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

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

People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
Faith Resnick

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

If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing
it is because your lap is warmer.
A. N. Whitehead

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man,
but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

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

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

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

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
Montaigne

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan Greenberg

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine

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

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves
happier with a dog.
Barbara Holland

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

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

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

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

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Warren Eckstein

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.
Tay Hohoff

One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always
seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do.
Barbara Webster

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Reynard

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.
Stephen Baker

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
Andrew Lang

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...
Saki (H. H. Munro)

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.
St. George Mivart

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa,
and often simultaneously.
Louis F. Camuti, DVM

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
George F. Will

By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
Colette

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
Louis Wain

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges.
Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis

Her function is to sit and be admired.
Georgina Strickland Gates

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure,
could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards
the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
Jules Champfleury

If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then,
how could his human remain possessed.
Winifred Carriere

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are
when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Unknown

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

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
English proverb

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

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats
Anonymous

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

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

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
Ernest Menaul

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Colette

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
Colonial American proverb

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

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