“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 worshipped 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
“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 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
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
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
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. - Eleanor Clark
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
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard
“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!” - Theophile Gautier
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne
"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)
"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don’t be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it. - from “Miao” by Dilys Laing
“The cat has too much spirit to have no heart” - Ernest Menaul
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.” - Doug Larson
“Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.” - Stephen Baker
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
“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.” - Eleanor Farjeon
“Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor.” - Walter Chandoha
“Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’” - Rudyard Kipling, from the “Just-So Stories”
To err is human, to purr is feline. - Robert Byrne
If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. - Anonymous
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Every life should have nine cats. - Anonymous
Dogs eat. Cats dine. - Ann Taylor
I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.- Mugsy Peabody
“The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle.”- Roseanne Ambrose Brown
“Poets generally love cats–because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.”- Marion Garretty
“People that don’t like cats haven’t met the right one yet.” - Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.
“Cats look beyond appearances–beyond species entirely, it seems–to peer into the heart.” - Barbara L. Diamond
“Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize…that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.” - Cleveland Amory
“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?” Death thought about it. “Cats,” he said eventually, “Cats are nice.” - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
“The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.” - H.G. Wells
“Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed?” - Winifred Carriere
“Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.” - Leonard Michaels
“Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace.” - Robert Sterns
“The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.” - Patricia Dale-Green
“Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes. Some day there might actually be something there.” - Anonymous
“If your cat favors the left paw, chances are good that it possesses psychic ability to some extent.” - Dr. David Greene
“Cats may, indeed, be the thinking man’s pet–because living with cats certainly keeps you on your toes!” - Barbara L. Diamon
“When a cat chooses to be friendly, it’s a big deal, because a cat is picky.” - Mike Deupree
“Surely the cat, when it assumes the meat loaf position and gazes meditatively through slitted eyes, is pondering thoughts of utter profundity…” - Mij Colson Barnum
“The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.” - Edward Paley
When God made the world, He chose to put animals in it, and decided to give each whatever it wanted. All the animals formed a long line before His throne, and the cat quietly went to the end of the line. To the elephant and the bear He gave strength, to the rabbit and the deer, swiftness; to the owl, the ability to see at night, to the birds and the butterflies, great beauty; to the fox, cunning; to the monkey, intelligence; to the dog, loyalty; to the lion, courage; to the otter, playfulness. And all these were things the animals begged of God. At last he came to the end of the line, and there sat the little cat, waiting patiently. “What will YOU have?” God asked the cat.
The cat shrugged modestly. “Oh, whatever scraps you have left over. I don’t mind.”
“But I’m God. I have everything left over.”
“Then I’ll have a little of everything, please.”
And God gave a great shout of laughter at the cleverness of this small animal, and gave the cat everything she asked for, adding grace and elegance and, only for her, a gentle purr that would always attract humans and assure her a warm and comfortable home.
But he took away her false modesty. - Lenore Fleischer - The Cat’s Pajamas
“Chances are that a man who can nuzzle a kitten is also open and caring in other facets of his life.” - Barbara L. Diamond
“Every dog has his day – but the nights are reserved for the cats.” - Unknown
Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively. - Roni Schotter
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes. - W B Yeats
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. - Edgar Allan Poe
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. - Anonymous
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown. - H. P. Lovecraft 1890-1937
A Cat, with its phosporescent eyes that shine like lanterns and sparks flashing from its back, moves fearlessly through the darkness, where it meets wandfering ghosts, witches, alchemists, necromancers, grave-robbers, lovers, thieves, murderers, grey-cloaked patrols, and all the obscene larvae that only emerge at night. - Theophile Gautier 1811-1872
People who belong to Siamese cats must make up their minds to do a good deal of waiting upon them." - Compton Mackenzie
“The cat has to much spirit to have no heart.” - Ernest Menault
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. - Oliver Herford
God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion. - Fernand Mery
The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats. - Anonymous
Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. - Helen M. Winslow
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. - Saki
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