This is our first collection of cat related quotes for your enjoyment
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Cat Quotes part 1
“If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.” – Theophile Gautier
“I love cats. I even think we have one at home.” – Edward L Burlingame
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” – Charles Dickens
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” – Jeff Valdez
“With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.” – Louis Camuti
“While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh.” – Rita Mae Brown
“If I prefer cats to dogs, this is because there is no police cat.” – Jean Cocteau
“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.” – L M Montgomery, Anne of the Island
“If the dog embodies action, the cat is rather a symbol of reflection.” – Marie-Luce Hubert
“You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.” – George Mikes
“Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.” – James Gorman
“A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend.” – Robert J Vogel
“The cat is a character of being, the dog is a character of doing.” – Michael Rosen
“Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?” – Robert Stearns
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” – Unknown
“You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you.” – Helen Powers
“Even cats grow lonely and anxious.” – Mason Cooley
“Cats cooperate, dogs perform.” – Brad Thompson
“What do we get if we remove half the brain of a cat? An intelligent dog!” – Jim Davis
“Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.” – Helen M Winslow
“Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.” – Andre Norton
“I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.” – Nafisa Joseph
“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.” – Lilian Jackson Braun
“You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same.” – Jack Wright
“Cats are like potato chips – it's hard to have just one.” – Sandra Charon
“A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me… They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me… I must be a God!” – Ira Lewis
“When choosing a pet, remember that a dog will consider you as his family, and a cat as a domestic.” – Ron Dentinger
“You own a dog but you feed a cat.” – Jenny de Vries
“The cat is for those who care little for demonstrative affection, and much more for the subtle intimacies of spirit.” – Frank Swinnerton
“Books. Cats. Life is good.” – Edward Gorey
“There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.” – Carl Van Vechten
“Dogs are farmers and farmers' animals, cats are gentlemen and gentlemen's animals.” – Howard P Lovecraft
“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.” – Jeff Valdez
“The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat.” – Charles J Brady
“The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The Cat's beauty is classical while the Dog's is gothic.” – Howard Lovecraft
“You can tell a dog to do something. You can put it to a cat as a reasonable proposition.” – Michael Stevens
“With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.” – Louis A Camuti
“I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.” – Gemma Arterton
“The Cat's beauty is classical while the Dog's is gothic.” – Howard Lovecraft
“Puss on the hearth with velvet paws, sits wiping o'er his whiskered jaws.” – Erasmus Darwin
“I had at least a hundred cats, or rather, as Michelet said, a hundred cats got me.” – Paul Morand
“One must love a cat on its own terms.” – Paul Gray
“There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence… Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure.” – Wendy Christensen
“Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.” – Eleanor Clark
“You need to get yourself a proper dog. Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat and cats are pointless” – Ron Swanson
“Cats will outsmart dogs every time.” – John Grogan
“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.” – Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
“One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway
“A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.”- George Mikes
“There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.” – David C Holley, Write Like No One is Reading
“The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.” – H G Wells
“People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.” – Deborah A. Edwards
“A cat is rarely enthusiastic. A dog is, too often. A man, too.” – Claude Roy
“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.” – W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose
“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and worn. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath looks like a collection of knitting mistakes.” – Eric Gurney
“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.” – Ursula Andress
“A dog is like a liberal, he wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't really need to know that everybody loves him.” – William Kunstler
Cat Quotes part 2
“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.” – Jeanette Winterson
“Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.” – Vicki Brown
“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” – Tay Hohoff
“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.” – Oliver Gaspirtz
“Dogs are farmers and farmers' animals, cats are gentlemen and gentlemen's animals.” – Howard P Lovecraft
“Apparently, the cat sees it as a point of honor to be of no use at all, this does not prevent him from claiming a better place at home than the dog.” – Michel Tournier
“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” – Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
“I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.” – Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor
“Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively.” – Roni Schotter
“When you are a cat, you are a cat. When you are a cat you are not a dog.” – Jacques Roubaud
“Some people own cats and go on leading normal lives.” – Unknown
“Dogs come when they're called. Cats take the message and call you back.” – Mary Bly
“I love in the cat that independent and most ungrateful temper which prevents it from attaching itself to anyone; the indifference with which it passes from the salon to the housetop.” – Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
“When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.” – Oliver Gaspirtz
“I figured we all started out as cats, but then the world put us on a leash and collar and turned us into dogs.” – Unknown
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
“The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by.” – Unknown
“I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.” – Haruki Murakami
“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 are cleverer than dogs. Throw a ball for a cat and she'll expect you to have it biked back.” – Jasmine Birtles
“We entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger and equal because he wishes to be there.” – HP Lovecraft
“There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone.” – Louis Camuti
“You own a dog but you feed a cat.” – Barbara Webster
“The cat cleans her face with a look of delight.” – John Clare
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of failing to write anything.” – Dan Greenberg
“When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed… she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.” – Leonore Fleisher
“Dogs own space and cats own time.” – Nicola Griffith, Hild
“When choosing a pet, remember that a dog will consider you as his family, and a cat as a domestic.” – Ron Dentinger
“I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.” – Jarod Kintz
“Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot-water bottles that don't go cold.” – Suzanne Millen
“Cats are like shoes – you need them in a lot of colors.” – Mari Skelly
“Poets generally love cats – because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.” – Marion Garretty
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A Heinlein
“We entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger and equal because he wishes to be there.” – H P Lovecraft
“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”- Pam Brown
“Dogs eat. Cats dine.” – Ann Taylor
“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.” – Paula Poundstone
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.” – Desmond Morris
“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 many.” – Mark Twain
“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.” – Dan Greenberg
“A cat does not want all the world to love her – only those she has chosen to love.” – Helen Thomson
“Most cats enjoy kneading – digging their claws into rugs, fabrics or human arms and legs. It exercises certain muscles, but I think they do it for fun, too.” – Lloyd Alexander
“…I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.” – Trisha McCagh
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau
“His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having.” – Michael Joseph
“If you throw a ball to a dog, he will run and catch it. But this is not what a cat will do.” – Jim Davis
“Two people meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.” – Charlotte Gray
“People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.” – Susan Easterly
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” – Robertson Davies
“I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.” – Jacqueline Bisset
“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.” – Susanna Clarke
“Every dog has his day – but nights belong to cats.” – Unknown
“If you can remember how many cats you have, you don't have enough.” – Unknown
“I live for my cats. They are my only joy, my only pleasure in life. I do my utmost for them.” – Agatha Christie
“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.” – James Gorman