105 Cat Quotes Every Feline Fan Will Like

Sometimes, it’s hard to think of the correct words to describe your lazy friend. The one with whiskers, to avoid any innuendos. Into the rescue come cat quotes! However, before sticking them onto a greeting card for your cat-loving friend, you might want to know more about these feline creatures. They don’t constantly scratch and tear up furniture like movies portray them.

Since cats purr and take day-long beauty sleep, they are associated with laziness. Like dogs themselves, they do become buds of multiple animal jokes. However, a different story is seen if you were to take a closer look at quotes about cats. Several of these quotes describe cats as mysterious yet very extroverted creatures. However, you can be sure that several cat quotes poke innocent fun at them, too.

So, it might be time to stop purring around, and about the time you take a look at our collection of cat sayings. Read, memorize, and use them to caption photos of your feline roommates on Instagram — these quotes are so good that you must do all three. If you rest all day like a lazy cat on a hot summer day, look below and upvote the phrases you liked the most. Also, if you have more animal quotes to share, do so in the comments.

#1

“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana

#2

“I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.” – James Herriot

#3

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” – Mason Cooley

#4

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” 

#5

“Your house will always be blessed with love, laughter, and friendship if you have a cat.” – Lewis Carroll

#6

“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” – Charles Dickens

#7

“I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.” – Amy Lee

#8

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein

#9

“I wish that my writing was as mysterious as a cat.” – Edgar Allan Poe

#10

“Cats leave paw prints in your heart, forever and always.”

#11

“A cat doesn’t care if you are smart or dumb, give him your heart and he will give you his.” – Abraham Lincoln

#12

“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 humankind.” – Cleveland Amory

#13

“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.” – Dan Greenburg

#14

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” – Leonardo da Vinci

#15

“Just watching my cats can make me happy.” – Paula Cole

#16

“I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” – Eckhart Tolle

#17

“Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.” – Seanan McGuire

#18

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot

#19

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway

#20

“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

#21

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau

#22

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine

#23

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” – Abraham Lincoln

#24

“Kittens are angels with whiskers.” – Alexis Flora Hope

#25

“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.” – Terry Pratchet

#26

“One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.” – Cleveland Amory

#27

“The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.” – French proverb

#28

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer

#29

“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.”

#30

“All you need is love and a cat.” 

#31

“Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.” – Lillian Jackson Braun

#32

“Cats have a sense of humor, as is shown in their extreme love of play. A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.” – William Lyon Phelps

#33

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett

#34

“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.” – Robert Southey

#35

“If a dog jumps in 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

#36

“Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” – Mark Twain

#37

“A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.” – Joseph Epstein

#38

“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.” – Robert A. Heinlein

#39

“The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.” 

#40

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens… that whatever you say to them, they always purr.” – Lewis Carrol

#41

“Happy is the home with at least one cat.” – Italian proverb

#42

“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.” – William S. Burroughs

#43

“One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway

#44

“Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.” – Will Rogers

#45

“Dogs eat. Cats dine.”

#46

“The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” – George Will

#47

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne

#48

“Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat.” – Chinese proverb

#49

“I’m not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they’re really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.” – Michael Showalter

#50

“You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” – Jane Pauley

#51

“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” – Rod McKuen

#52

“Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” – Kristin Cast

#53

“My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.” – P.C. Cast

#54

“Cats are only human; they have their faults.” – Kingsley Amis

#55

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

#56

“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Davis

#57

“In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” – English proverb

#58

“If stretching made money, all cats would be wealthy.” 

#59

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.” – Sir Walter Scott

#60

“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.” – William S. Burroughs

#61

“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.” – Agnes Repplier

#62

“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” – W. L. George

#63

“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

#64

“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.” – Paula Poundstone

#65

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.” – Peter S. Beagle

#66

“The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see and scratches everything he can scratch.” – Francois Rene

#67

“When the mouse laughs at a cat, there’s a mouse hole nearby.” – Nigerian proverb

#68

“The cat was created when the lion sneezed.” – Middle Eastern proverb

#69

“A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.” – Middle Eastern proverb

#70

“A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.” – English proverb

#71

“A house without a dog or cat is the house of a scoundrel.” – Portuguese proverb

#72

“All cats are grey in the dark.”

#73

“A home without a cat – and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat – may be a perfect home, perhaps but how can it prove title?” – Mark Twain

#74

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.” – Elizabeth Peters

#75

“He who hunts with cats will catch mice.” – Danish proverb

#76

“Cats are inquisitive but hate to admit it.” – Mason Cooley

#77

“Cats, like men, are flatters.” – Walter Savage Landor

#78

“Dogs look up to us; cats look down on us; pigs treat us as equals.” – Martin Gilbert

#79

“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” – Rudyard Kipling

#80

“Cat sentimentality is a human thing. Cats are indifferent, their minds can’t comprehend the concept ‘I shall d*e,’ they just go on living.” – Gavin Ewart

#81

“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

#82

“When rats infest the Palace a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse.” – Chinese proverb

#83

“A cat is nobody’s fool.” – Spanish proverb

#84

“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

#85

“If you want to write, keep a cat.” – Aldous Huxley

#86

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor

#87

“A cat can purr its way out of anything.” – Donna McCrohan

#88

“No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.” – Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

#89

“Cats don’t catch mice to please God.” – Afghanistan proverb

#90

“After dark all cats are leopards.” – American proverb

#91

“I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.” – Nafisa Joseph

#92

“Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.” – Oswald Barron

#93

“The cat in gloves catches no mice.” – Benjamin Franklin

#94

“Cats seem to go on the principles that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

#95

“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.” – Laini Taylor

#96

“Cats can obviously rise to considerable mental heights, at least when they want to satisfy their lower instincts.” – Akif Pirincci

#97

“Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.” – Iranian proverb

#98

“The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.” – Spanish proverb

#99

“The cat is not in the long run anxious to please.” – T. O. Beachcroft

#100

“Cats, I always think, only lump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.” – Anne Enright

#101

“Meowing cats catch fewer mice.” – Portuguese proverb

#102

“Cats don’t catch the old birds.” – Netherlands proverb

#103

“A blind cat catches only a dead rat.” – Chinese proverb

#104

“Confound the cats! All cats-always- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey; by night a nuisance and by day- confound the cats!” – R. O. Thomas Dobbin

#105

“Cat: a soft indestructible automation provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.” – Ambrose Bierce