Some of my favorite quotes about cats ~ "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Terry Pratchett
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
"There are no ordinary cats." - Colette
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." - Leonardo da Vinci
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one." - Thomas Fuller
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier
"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."
- Sir Walter Scott
"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties."
- W. L. George
"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 mind." - Cleveland Amory
"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." - Carl Van Vechten
"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves." - Mary Wilkins
"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do." - Bill Adler
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln
"Some cats are blind and stone deaf but ain't no cat wuz ever dumb." - Anthony Henderson Euwer
"Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use." - Mark Twain
"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 its title?" - Mark Twain
"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air." - Doris Lessing
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez
"People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." - Faith Resnick
"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - anonymous
"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." - Dave Platt
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." - Jules Reynard
"Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat." - Emile Auguste Chartier
"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
"A cat can purr its way out of anything." - Donna McCrohan
"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience." - Pam Brown
"To err is human, to purr is feline." - Robert Byrne
"Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort." - Paul Corey
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American proverb
"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch." - Leo Dworken
"There are few things in life more heartwarming then to be welcomed by a cat." - Tay Hohoff
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." - Nan Porter
"It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens." - Cynthia E. Varnado
"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." — Robert A. Heinlein
"Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant." - Maurice Burton
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." - Jules Verne
"When you come upon your cat, deep in meditation, staring thoughtfully at something that you can't see, just remember that your cat is, in fact, running the universe." - Bonni Elizabeth Hall & Missycat
"A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem." - Jean Burden - American writer
"The cat is a dilettante in fur." - Theophile Gautier
"Cats pride themselves on their ability to do nothing." - John R. Breen
"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense." - Erasmus Darwin
"To me, the best holistic remedy for high blood pressure, is a purring cat on your lap." - Kathrine Palmer Peterson
"I always find it curious as to why I take such great pains to keep my cat's dishes clean when I know I'll look out the window and see her happily carrying a dead mouse in her mouth." - Fannie Roach Palmer
"Each cat has a distinct purrsonality." - Richard L. Peterson
"I like cats because they go where they want, they do what they want, and usually get what they want" - Rick McDivitt
"Cats are distant,discreet,impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be more company?"
~ Alexandriea Rika Anderson
"Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses."
- John Weitz
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Contributor's Note
I love collecting cat quotes. Some of these I found myself and some were sent to me by friends and fellow cat-lovers. These quotes are just a few from the "Cat Talk" page of my website, The Meditative Cat.
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