Cats Quotes

Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.

~ Douglas Woolf

While most people love certain species to pieces (e.g. cats and dogs), others are more loved in pieces (e.g. cows and pigs)

~ Mango Wodzak

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

~ Joanna Lumley

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

~ Erica Jong

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

~ Garrison Keillor

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 kind.

~ Cleveland Amory

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

~ Kaspar Hauser

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

~ W. L. George

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

~ Eddie Izzard

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

~ Antonio Banderas

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

~ Kenny Loggins

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

~ Sigmund Freud

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

~ Carnie Wilson

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

~ Charles Bukowski

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

~ James Herriot

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

~ Paula Cole

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

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

~ Andre Norton

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

~ Nafisa Joseph

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

~ Jim Davis

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

~ Bill Dana

Cats don't like change without their consent.

~ Roger Caras

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

~ Douglas Coupland

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

~ Mason Cooley

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

~ Mason Cooley

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

~ Ron Reagan

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

I've always been mad about cats.

~ Vivien Leigh

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

~ Sloane Crosley

I love cats.

~ Dick Van Patten

I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet.

~ Connor Franta

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

I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.

~ Jodi Kantor

If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people - I'm not one of them.

~ Andy Weir

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

~ Betty White