Quotes and Sayings about Cats, Kittens

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.

A man mixed with a cat will improve the man, but deteriorate the cat.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
– Robert A. Heinlein

All you need is love…and a cat.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
– Winston Churchill

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

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

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

You can’t own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.
– Sir Harry Swanson

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
– Eleanor Farjeon

There are no ordinary cats.
– Colette

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

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

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

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.
– Eleanor Clark

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

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
– Eugen Weber

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
– Winifred Carriere

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
– Colette

Never try to outstubborn a cat.
– Robert A. Heinlei

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

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

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
– Walter Scott

There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
– Wesley Bates

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
– Ray Bradbury

My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.
– P.C. Cast

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
– Jean Cocteau

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
– Faith Resnick