You wouldn’t be surprised to hear that there are a lot of amazing quotes and proverbs out there about cats. When you read these sayings you will be amazed at how unusual these animals are, and you will find an explanation as to why you love them for the umpteenth time.
1. Time spent with cats is never wasted. – Sigmund Freud
2. When you believe there is no love in the world, look into the eyes of the cat in your lap. – Welsh proverb
3. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. – James Herriot
4. Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. – Rod McKuen
5. Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic – Lilian Jackson Braun
6. I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine
7. Cats rule the world. – Jim Davis
8. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. – Joseph Wood Krutch
9. I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days. – Bill Dana
10. I’ve always been mad about cats. – Vivien Leigh
11. If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. – Diane Sawyer
12. I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy. – Amy Lee
13. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. – William S. Burroughs
14. Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
15. To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself. – Marie Helvin
16. 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
17. Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often. – Aaron Tveit
18. I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They’re really chill, and they’re loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way. – Camren Bicondova
19. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. – Robert A. Heinlein
20. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. – Garrison Keillor
21. What greater gift than the love of a cat. – Charles Dicken
22. A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. – Ernest Hemingway
23. Never try to outstubborn a cat. – Robert A. Heinlein
24. The smallest feline is a masterpiece. – Leonardo da Vinci
25. There are no ordinary cats. – Colette
26. If a cat spoke, it would say things like ‘Hey, I don’t see the problem here. – Roy Blount Jr.
27. I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don’t laugh at you, they never contradict you, there’s no need to impress them, and they won’t divulge your secrets. – Elle Newmark
28. A person of culture as much as he is able to understand a cat. – Bernard Shaw
29. I’ve never met a cat to care what they say about him click. – Jozef Bulatovic
30. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. – Michel de Montaigne
31. One must love a cat on its own terms. – Paul Gray
32. Happiness is …. lot of things, really a lot. But undoubtedly – and cats. – Marta Ketro
34. 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. – Alfred North Whitehead
35. Cats aren’t shirts that you buy at the store and then return if they don’t fit. Nor are they a pair of shoes you can give away or toss out when you’ve outgrown them. While these comparisons may seem ridiculously obvious to you, the sad fact is that too many cat owners actually do view their cats that way. As a result, countless cats end up relinquished to shelters or just abandoned because they didn’t meet their owners’ expectations of the perfect cat. – Pam Johnson-Bennett
36. Books. Cats. Life is Good. – Edward Gorey
37. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. – Garrison Keillor
38. A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. – Ernest Hemingway
39. You know how it is with cats: They don’t really have owners, they have staff. – P.C. Cast
40. I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.- Ursula Andress
41. Cats are endless opportunities for revelation. – Leslie Kapp
42. Dogs have their day but cats have 365. – Lilian Jackson Braun
43. As we all know, cats now rule the world. – John R.F. Breen
44. Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look has either never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. – Maurice Burton
45. Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. – Winifred Carriere
46. Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. – Paul Gray
47. When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time. – Seanan McGurie
48. A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person. – Mugsy Peabody
49. A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. – Anonymous
50. Cats seem to go on the principle that it is never does any harm to ask for what you want – J.W. Krutch
51. A cat is there when you call her, if she does not have something better to do.- Bill Adler
52. The cat is the best anarchist.- Ernest Hemingway
53. You cannot own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.- Swanson
54. Cats are dogs with college education.- Grace Hodgson
56. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.- W.L. George
57. Dogs eat. Cats dine. – Ann Taylor
58. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.- Garrison Keillor
59. A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.- Hazel Nicholson
60. I never know a moral cat.- Jack Smith
61. Cats are mysterious folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. – Sir Walter Scott
62. To err is human, to purr is feline.- Robert Byrne
63. I spend so much time living by myself – mostly in hotels – and I pick up cats when I’m feeling particularly lonely. – Penelope Cruz
64. I really am a cat transformed into a woman. – Brigitte Bardot
65. I’ve always been mad about cats. – Vivien Leigh
66. 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
67. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. – Charles Bukowski
68. Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that. – Antonio Banderas
69. The cat’s natural charisma ensures that everyone will notice them. – Stephane Garnier
70. The idea of calm is a sitting cat.- Jules Bernard
71. A cat’s eyes are windows that show us another world.- Irish proverb
72. The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. – William K. Burroughs
73. There is no such ordinary thing as an ordinary cat.- Colette
74. Be a cat at work and home: learn to delegate. – Stephane Garnier
75. The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French proverb
76. There is an adage that goes: “You took a long time to be born, so take the time to die.” In order to do that, just copy your cat and take time to live. – Stephane Garnier
77. You can throw a cat however you want; it always falls on its feet – Proverb
78. A cat will become your friend, if you are worthy of their affection, but never your slave. – Theophile Gautier
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79. Cats are proud creatures, after all. – Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
80. Feeling the weight of a cat’s paws pressing into your shoulders in the middle of the night – not much beats that. – Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
81. In the cat world, good manners are a must. – Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
82. Cats are realists. Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
83. In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.- Louis J Camuti
84. One small cat changes coming back to an empty house to coming home. – Pam Brown
85. Reiki can help to strengthen the connection between an animal and an owner. Reiki can help to maintain their health on physical, emotional and energetic levels. Reiki can help increase an animal’s feelings of relaxation and reduce tension in anxious animals. – Lisa Powers
86. Don’t “do” Reiki: “be” Reiki with your cat. – Kathleen Prasad
87. When we share Reiki with cats, it’s so important to realize that they are our spiritual teachers. – Kathleen Prasad
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88. A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. – Author Unknown
89. A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. – Jean Burden
90. There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. – Wesley Bates
91. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. – Joseph Wood Krutch
92. I love cat because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau
93. A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. – Hazel Nicholson
94. Even overweight, cat insinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. – John Weitz
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95. Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, just look at the cats, you’ll feel better,
because they know that everything is, just as it is. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you
have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be
discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.- Charles Bukowski
96. God, as is known, created the world in about a week, and then He looked at His creation and said
“Ooh fuck!?”. And then He added: “Oh, I’ve got a minute, and now I’m going to create something
exceptionally nice. Something worthy of me, something truly devine. Something that is the true
essence of beauty and has no flaws”. And He created a cat.” – Andrzej Sapkowski
