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The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Sep 26, 2025
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
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.
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
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.
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
If a dog jumps into 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.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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