great cat quotations
My wife was looking at the tag cloud in the sidebar of my blog and said she noticed I don’t have many posts about cats. Since we’re cat people, I thought I’d better do something about that!
Here’s a list of great quotations about cats and a few pictures I hope you’ll find amusing.
“People who hate cats in this life will come back as mice in their next life.” - Faith Resnick
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” - Jeff Valdez
“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.” - unknown
“The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.” - Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
“In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” - English proverb
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.” - Steven Wright
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” - James Herriot
“One cat leads to another.” - Ernest Hemingway
“Beware of people who dislike cats.” - Irish proverb
“If you yell at a cat, you’re the one who is making a fool of yourself.” - unknown
“Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?” - Louis Camuti
“Cat’s motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.” - unknown
“Dog’s come when they’re called: cats take a message and get back to you later.” - Mary Bly
“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.” - Ellen Perry Berkeley
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” - Albert Schweiter
“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
“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are gods.” - unknown
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.” - Oliver Herford
“To err is human, to purr is feline.” - Robert Byrne
“The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.” - Ernest Menaul
“The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” - George F. Will
“The cat loves fish, but hates wet feet.” - Medieval Proverb
“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” - Unknown
“Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.” - John S. Nichols
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” - Colette
“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” - Joseph Wood Krutch
“You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” - Colonial American proverb
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.” - Abraham Lincoln
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” - Mark Twain
“Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True and they have many other fine qualities as well.” - Missy Dizick
“There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.” - unknown
“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
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” - Bill Dana
“The trouble with a kitten is that…
Eventually…
It becomes a cat!” - Ogden Nash
“Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.” - Lilian Jackson Braun (author of The Cat Who… series)
As much as my wife and I are fans of Lilian Jackson Braun’s series of The Cat Who… books, I have to say that we’ve seen our cats in some awfully unphotogenic poses. The following picture is a couple of cats who are modest sunbathers.
Our grandson Drew loves to play in water, and so his grandma Esther bought him a swimming pool. Here are several pictures of him enjoying it.
We’d enjoy hearing comments from other cat people!
quotation…
“Every Bible should be bound in shoe leather.” - D. L. Moody
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Rob
Dogs have owners; cats have staff.
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I don’t like cats. Sorry. I much prefer dogs. But, to be fair, I’m not much of a pet person anyway. We all have things we like to spend money on. I prefer spending my money on other things. Additionally, even if I liked cats, I could never own one since I’m quite allergic to them. My wife is as well. Anyway, I appreciated the fact that the quotes were balanced between those that painted cats favorably and those that painted cats unfavorably.
Thanks for your comment, Michael. Even though I’m a cat person, I’m not oblivious to the downsides of their quirky personalities and the work they involve. I do enjoy their company, though. My mom hates cats, and so as a kid I could never have one. My wife grew up with cats. It took me a while to get used to how different they are from dogs, but once I did, I much prefer cats to dogs. Our kids grew up without a dog, and now all three of them are dog people. Go figure!
Chief and I don’t have cats of our own, but we take care of a neighbor’s cat when he’s out of town. Said cat has us both suitably under his control and we love him for it
Here are some comparing cats and dogs:
Dog: They feed me, love me and take care of me: they must be gods!
Cat: They feed me, love me and take care of me: I must be a god! - Unknown
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
Looks like Drew got a bathing suit to match his swimming pool!
We’ve had cats, dogs, birds, hamsters, frogs, fish, lizards, snakes, and children. Cats are the easiest to care for by far!
Cats rule; dogs drool! ‘Nuf said!
sorry. we’re dog people. no comments to make…or at least none that i will put in writing!
Jami, that’s hilarious! Your sister-in-law’s earlier comment was pro-cat. You two will have to work this out between you.
The modest cats are hilarious. My family had a cat and a dog, and I like both.
We grew up not being able to have pets.
Somehow, the quiet mystery of a cat is intrigues me…so we have had several cats.
You forgot the quote: Dogs have masters; Cats have staff.
I have read that Hitler hated cats and loved dogs…..hmmmmmmmmmm.
I like cats; they taste like chicken.
I could go on, but I shall refrain. Apparently your old nature still clings to you, Rob. You like cats…..
Rob,
If you own a cat and all your kids have dogs, then perhaps it’s true what they say:
“The grass is always greener . . . when you have dogs.”
Just to finish your Cat Who quote: Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic… except when they are being photographed!
The perversity of man is second only to that of cats.
How’s this - I love cats so much that I keep two even though I’m allergic to them. I can’t find who it was that said, “God gave us the cat so that we may pet the tiger,” but it’s certainly true. Dogs can’t claim anything so noble as the lion or the cheetah as a relation. I wonder if you’ve seen the “Simon’s Cat” short cartoons http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
They’re definitely made by a cat owner!
Hi Rob…sorry…no cat people live in our house. We recently saw a stray cat in our country neighborhood that was unfortunately probably dropped off, and it kept hanging around. I could not get that cat to “scat!” and was ready to catch it in a live trap and drop it off someplace until our neighbors adopted it, unfortunately. I’m hoping they make it an inside cat so it stays on their side of the fence. I’m keeping my trap handy (altho I grew up knowing a cat’s real home is a burlap sack). Sorry, Rob.