Cat Quotes
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
~ Hippolyte Taine
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
~ Indian Saying
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating but it ain’t so
~ it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren’t like this. A dog’s idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
~ James Gorman
You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
~ Jane Pauley
Way down deep we are all motivated by the same urges, cats have the courage to live by them.
~ Jim Davis
Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.
~ John Dobbin
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
~ John Weitz
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a lot of ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
~ Joseph Wood Crutch
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
~ Jules Champfleury
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
~ Jules Reynard
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~ Jules Verne
You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.
~ Kate Sanborn
The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal…its also the reason they hate birds.
~ KC Buffington
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated… Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.
~ Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory)
Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.
~ Lillian Jackson Braun
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.
~ Lynn Hollyn
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat