Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
– Robert A. Heinlein
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…
– Albert Schweitzer
Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
– Miguel de Cervantes
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
– Winston Churchill
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
– Christopher Hitchens
Cats rule; dogs drool.
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
Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
– Mary Bly
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
– Ernest Hemingway
All you need is love…and a cat.
A man mixed with a cat will improve the man, but deteriorate the cat.
The phrase “domestic cat” is an oxymoron.
– George F. Will
If a dog jumps in 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.
– Alfred North Whitehead
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.
– George Carlin
You can’t own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.
– Sir Harry Swanson
A meow massages the heart.
– Stuart McMillan
There are no ordinary cats.
– Colette
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
– Charles Dickens
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
I don’t hold with cruelty to cats.
– Terry Pratchett
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
– Missy Dizick
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
– Paul Gray
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
– Walter Scott
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
– William S. Burroughs
If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little b*stards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.
– Terry Pratchett
God made the cat to offer men the pleasure of stroking a tiger.
– Francois Joseph Mery
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
– Jean Cocteau
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
– Winifred Carriere
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
– Louis Wain
“You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
– George Mikes
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
– W. L. George
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
– Colette
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
– Eugen Weber
You can own a dog, but you can’t own a cat, it owns you.
You own a dog but you feed a cat.
– Jenny de Vries
Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.
– Stephen Baker
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
– Eleanor Farjeon
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
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
– Mark Twain
# Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world – the clock and the cat.
– Emile Auguste Chartier
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
– George Mikes
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
– George F. Will
Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.
– Hank Ketchum
Cats are like potato chips you can’t have just one.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
One must love a cat on its own terms.
– Paul Gray
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
– Anna Quindlen,
A cat sees us as the dogs . . . A cat sees himself as the human.
– Willam jones
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
– Ray Bradbury
Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.
– James Mason
My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.
– P.C. Cast
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
– Robert A. Heinlei
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.
– Nan Porter
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends…
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
– Garrison Keillor
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
– Robertson Davies
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
– Hippolyte Taine
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
– Connie Willis
The trouble with cats is that they’ve got no tact.
– P. G. Wodehouse
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.
– Eleanor Clark
Loyalty is for the dogs. Count me among the cats. And count me twice-once for each of my faces.
– Jarod Kintz
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
– William Lyon Phelps
By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
– Colette
A cat has absolute emotional honesty.
There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
– Wesley Bates
People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
– Faith Resnick
Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.
– Ilona Andrews
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.
– St. George Mivart
Anything on the ground is a cat toy. Anything not there yet, will be.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your naughty cat after you are gone.
– William S. Burroughs
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
– Michel de Montaigne
People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.
– Susan Easterly
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
– Maureen Johnson
A house without a cat is like a kiss without a hug.
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
A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.
– Sarah Thompson
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
– Robert A. Stern
Cats can’t speak, that’s common sense.
– Yoruichi
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
– Denceyo
When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?
– Montaigne
There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.
– Jarod Kintz
If a cat spoke, it would say things like ‘Hey, I don’t see the problem here.
– Roy Blount Jr.
Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.
– Andrew Lang
Cats leave paw prints on our hearts.
It’s very hard to be polite if you’re a cat.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
– John Steinbeck
If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they’d rule the world.
– P.C. Cast
Heaven will never be Paradise unless my cats are there waiting for me.
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
– James Herriot
I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?
– Jarod Kintz
One cat just leads to another.
– Ernest Hemingway
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
– Edgar Allan Poe
A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.
– Jenny de Vries
Books. Cats. Life is good.
– T.S. Eliot
Dogs eat. Cats dine.
– Ann Taylor
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
– Terry Pratchett
A cat is like a recipe – you always think it’s yours.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
– Bill Dana
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
– Jean Burden
Cats know instinctively the exact time their masters are going to wake up, and wake them ten minutes earlier.
– Jim Davis
Cats are so purr-fect!!!!
Cats come and go without ever leaving.
– Martha Curtis
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
– Theophile Gautier
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
– Louis J. Camuti
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
The cat is above all things, a dramatist.
– Margaret Benson
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
Cats have it all; admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
– Rod McKuen
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
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
– Charlotte Gray
I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.
– Seanan McGuire
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
– Pam Brown