'Cat' Quotes

Cat quotes have been a source of inspiration and amusement for centuries. From ancient Egyptian proverbs to modern day memes, these quotes have captured the essence of feline behavior and their mysterious nature. They have been used to convey wisdom, humor, and even political commentary. Famous figures like Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway have immortalized their love for cats through their words. These quotes have also been a reflection of society’s changing attitudes towards cats, from being worshipped as gods to being seen as beloved companions. Today, cat quotes continue to bring joy and comfort to people, reminding us of the beauty and complexity of these creatures.Read Less

349 Noteworthy 'Cat' Quotations and Sayings

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeanette Winterson, Book, Cat, Garden, 0

- Jeanette Winterson

Author

· England

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Cat, Charming, Lying, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Cat, Feminine, Persuasion, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there.” -Cat Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Car, Cat, Rooms, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

The sh*t’s gonna splatter, start buggin, yo…” Mencheres to Cat Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Cat, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Cat, Feet, Mouths, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

He picked the wrong profession. Should’ve stayed a prostitute. He’d have made millions. – Cat Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeaniene Frost, Cat, 0

- Jeaniene Frost

Author

I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces! Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeff Goldblum, Cat, Faces, 0

- Jeff Goldblum

Actor

· USA

Cat
Faces

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeff Valdez, Cat, Dog, Funny, 0

- Jeff Valdez

Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jennifer Crusie, Cat, Dating, 0

- Jennifer Crusie

Author

Cat
Dating

I’m actually scared of horror movies. I’m kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cat, Scared, Stuff, 0

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

Actress

I’ve always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don’t. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jenny Downham, Cat, 0

- Jenny Downham

Author

· United Kingdom

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jerry Garcia, Cat, Hands, Rock And Roll, 0

- Jerry Garcia

I’ve learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I’ve learned that. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jerry Lee Lewis, Cat, 0

- Jerry Lee Lewis

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Lyon Phelps, Body, Cat, Water, 0

- William Lyon Phelps

Professor

· USA

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Ralph Inge, Animal, Cat, Humanity, 0

- William Ralph Inge

Theologian and Anglican priest

· England

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Friedrich Nietzsche, Cat, Peace, Women, 0

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher

· Germany

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garrison Keillor, Cat, Garden, Nature, 0

- Garrison Keillor

Writer

· USA

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Cat, Dog, Humans, 0

- Mason Cooley

Professor

· USA

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Cat, Stories, 0

- Mason Cooley

Professor

· USA

Cat
Stories

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn’t heard. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Cat, Gentleman, 0

- May Sarton

Poet

· Belgium

If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mehmet Murat Ildan, Book, Cat, Fool, 0

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

Playwright and novelist

· Turkey

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michael J. Rosen, Cat, Character, Dog, 0

- Michael J. Rosen

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Leonora Carrington, Cat, Seven, 0

- Leonora Carrington

Painter

· United Kingdom

Cat
Seven

Where should I go?” -Alice. “That depends on where you want to end up.” – The Cheshire Cat. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lewis Carroll, Cat, End, 0

- Lewis Carroll

Author

· England

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lilian Jackson Braun, Cat, Speech, 0

- Lilian Jackson Braun

Author

Cat
Speech

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lloyd Alexander, Cat, Fun, 0

- Lloyd Alexander

Author

· USA

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Book, Cat, Reading, 0

- Lord Chesterfield

Politician

· England

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis Armstrong, Cat, 0

- Louis Armstrong

Musician

· USA

There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis J. Camuti, Animal, Cat, Humanity, 0

- Louis J. Camuti

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis J. Camuti, Cat, Hungry, Love You, 0

- Louis J. Camuti

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis J. Camuti, Cat, Pockets, 0

- Louis J. Camuti

Cat
Pockets

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis J. Camuti, Bed, Cat, Natural, 0

- Louis J. Camuti

A pharaoh’s profile, a Krishna’s grace, tail like a question mark. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louis MacNeice, Cat, Grace, Tails, 0

- Louis MacNeice

Poet

· Ireland

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Cat, Folks, Silent, 0

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Author

· Canada

People who don’t like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Cat, 0

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Author

· Canada

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Animal, Cat, Gray, 0

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Author

· Canada

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lynne Truss, Advantage, Cat, Home, 0

- Lynne Truss

Author

· United Kingdom

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, W. C. Fields, Cat, Cheesy, Clever, 0

- W. C. Fields

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, W. L. George, Cat, Love, Pet, 0

- W. L. George

Novelist

· United Kingdom

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Cat, 0

- Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher

· France

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Cat, Funny, Humor, 0

- Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher

· France

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Cat, Sports, 0

- Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher

· France

Cat
Sports

Scratching is one of nature’s sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Cat, Hands, Pleasure, 0

- Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher

· France

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Geoffrey Chaucer, Cat, Meat, Milk, 0

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Poet

· England

The cat which isn’t let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Geoffrey Madan, Bags, Cat, Skeletons, 0

- Geoffrey Madan

Writer

· England

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George F. Kennan, Animal, Cat, Humanity, 0

- George F. Kennan

Diplomat

· USA

As soon as they’re out of your sight, you are out of their mind. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Walter de La Mare, Cat, Mind, Sight, 0

- Walter de La Mare

Poet

· England

When a cat flatters … he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Walter Savage Landor, Cat, Kindness, 0

- Walter Savage Landor

Poet

· England

Cat
Kindness

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Warren Eckstein, Cat, Inspiration, 0

- Warren Eckstein

'Cat' Quotes

349 Noteworthy 'Cat' Quotations and Sayings

We change and it’s uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it’s awkward.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. Explain

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere. Explain

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. Explain

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

There’s a saying that you can’t awaken somebody who’s pretending to be asleep.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

Stories are equipment for living.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

'Cat' Quotes

349 Noteworthy 'Cat' Quotations and Sayings

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