Cats Quotes and Sayings

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
- Paul Gray

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
- Colette

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
- Monica Edwards

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration – and get between you and it.
- Arthur Bridges

If I tried to tell you how much I love my cats, you wouldn’t believe me – unless your heart is also meow-shaped and covered in stray fur.
- Lexie Saige

After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word.  And has filed it for reference.
- Charlotte Gray

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Michel de Montaigne

Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
- John Weitz

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat’s eyes don’t even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog’s eyes look human.
- Roy Blount, Jr.

He swings from the chandelier, he paws my peanut butter, and he knocks over my drink in the most unfortunate places in the house – but I still love him like crazy.  It’s like a hairball in my heart.
- Audra Foveo-Alba

Kittens are born with their eyes shut.  They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.
- Stephen Baker

What greater gift than the love of a cat?
- Charles Dickens

I don’t think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it’s the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.
- Debbie Peterson

The trouble with adopting a cat is that they always have kittens.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
- Roy Blount, Jr.

People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
- Faith Resnick

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

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
- Eleanor Farjeon