190 Cats Quotes

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Famous Cats Quotes

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. — James Herriot

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

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

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - Joseph Wood Krutch

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. — Rod McKuen

What greater gift than the love of a cat. — Charles Dickens

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. — Agnes Varda

Cats invented self-esteem. - Erma Bombeck

Cats invented self-esteem. — Erma Bombeck

A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. — Champfleury

Books, Cats, Life is Good. — Edward Gorey

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? — Bette Midler

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud

Short Cats Quotes

  • Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
  • The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
  • A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
  • No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. — Deng Xiaoping
  • There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer
  • My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
  • Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein
  • A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin
  • The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. — William S. Burroughs

Cats Image Quotes

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it. - Richard Hammond quote

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it. — Richard Hammond

Cats quote If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. - Steven Wright quote

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. — Steven Wright

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger. - Erin Hunter quote

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger. — Erin Hunter

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. - Alberto Giacometti quote

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. - Rodney Dangerfield quote

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. — Rodney Dangerfield

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. - Pam Brown quote

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. — Pam Brown

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. - Robert A. Heinlein quote

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. — Robert A. Heinlein

Who are you and what have you done with my brother? - Stephenie Meyer quote

Who are you and what have you done with my brother? — Stephenie Meyer

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. - Leonora Carrington quote

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. — Leonora Carrington

While the cat's away, the mice will play. - James Arthur Ray quote

While the cat's away, the mice will play. — James Arthur Ray

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. - Albert Einstein quote

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. — Albert Einstein

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. - Juliette Lewis quote

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. — Juliette Lewis

Intelligence in the cat is underrated. - Louis Wain quote

Intelligence in the cat is underrated. — Louis Wain

Cats quote When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.

Dog And Cat Love Quotes

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. — Kristen Bell

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. — Carnie Wilson

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

Cats quote A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Eloisa James

One cat just leads to another. — Ernest Hemingway

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. — Peter Dinklage

Cats quote I have lived with several masters - all of them cats.
I have lived with several masters - all of them cats.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life. — Henry David Thoreau

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. — Anne Bronte

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures. — Marie Bashkirtseff

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I Love My Cat Quotes

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. — Taylor Swift

Cats quote I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home. — Amanda Holden

I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams. — Pablo Neruda

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. — Kenny Loggins

Cats quote If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed. — Jolene Blalock

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me! — Christopher Walken

I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad. — Michelle Branch

I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there. — Mary Ann Hoberman

Cat Lover Quotes

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. — Mark Twain

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 were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. — Paul Gray

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability. — Raymond Chandler

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

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! — Theophile Gautier

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

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. — Mark Twain

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. — Ernest Hemingway

Animal Love Quotes

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? — Saadat Hasan Manto

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. — James Herriot

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman

Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. — Anthony of Padua

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

Dog Love Quotes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. — Johnny Depp

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. — Konrad Lorenz

Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones. — Snoop Dogg

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. — Lenny Bruce

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. — Waylon Jennings

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. — Audrey Hepburn

Cat Quotes

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? — Steven Wright

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' — Al Capone

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come. — Maya Angelou

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance. — James Franco

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier

Cute Cat Quotes

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

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

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. — William Ralph Inge

Time spent with a cat is never wasted. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. — Pam Brown

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. — Walker Evans

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't. — William S. Burroughs

I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots. — Kandyse McClure

Pets Cats Quotes

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. — Theresa May

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? — Eleanor Porter

A meow massages the heart. — Stuart McMillan

I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life. — Halle Berry

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. — Kinky Friedman

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. — Marion Woodman

You can, sometimes, teach a cat to walk on its hind legs. You might even be able to teach it to bark. But that doesn’t make it a dog. — Rand Fishkin

Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die. — Karl Pilkington

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

A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. — James P. Gorman

Cat And Dog Quotes

If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape. — Vilfredo Pareto

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. — Sayings

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it. — Paul Gallico

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word. — Garrison Keillor

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. — S. Parkes Cadman

People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people. — John A. McDougall

Living together like a cat and a dog. — Russian Proverbs

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. — James Thurber

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead. — Noel Fielding

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. — Winston Churchill

Inspirational Cat Quotes

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

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. — Carl Van Vechten

The fog comes on little cat feet. — Carl Sandburg

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. — Jane Pauley

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. — Albert Einstein

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. — Neil Gaiman

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. — Ambrose Bierce

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. — Sarah Addison Allen

A cat's New Year dream is mostly a bird! Don't be like a cat; in New Year Dream something that you have never dreamed! Target for new things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Cute Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

We were together. I forget the rest. - Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. — Mary, Queen of Scots

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

Love Video Quotes

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it. — Jake Paul

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. — Kendrick Lamar

We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos. — Jake Paul

If you don't get offended by somebody scoring on you then I don't know what to tell you. That is like somebody breaking into your house and just taking your video game out of your hand and you just let it happen. I know if you do that to me, it ain't going to happen. I love my Xbox. — J. R. Smith

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems." — Lilly Singh

I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving. — Misty Copeland

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium. — Matthew Gray Gubler

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.' — Caitlin Moran

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. — Chris Brown

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More Cats Quotes

If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models. — Lester B. Pearson

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol! — Mikhail Bulgakov

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

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier

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