Quotations About Cats IV

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


By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~Barbara Holland

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. ~Jane Pauley


If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. ~Pierre Loti

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes


I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns. ~Astrid Alauda

If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart. ~Alan Devoe


To err is human, to purr is feline. ~Robert Byrne


Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath look like a collection of knitting mistakes. ~Eric Gurney


The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet. ~Proverb


Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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 way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. ~E.W. Howe


Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb


To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker


Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. ~James Gorman

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. ~P.G. Wodehouse



Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. ~Lillian Johnson


Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~May Sarton


A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb


People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. ~Charlotte Gray


Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. ~Louise A. Belcher

Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? ~Irish Saying


Dogs have owners, cats have staff. ~Author Unknown

One must love a cat on its own terms. ~Paul Gray


The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. ~Michael McGarel