Cats are a mystery for those who don’t have them as pets (or masters, as a cat owner might say!). However, they are also adorable and extremely interesting, as many famous people have stated throughout history.
If you are looking for highly shareable famous quotes about cats and cat lovers alike, we have curated a nice compilation of some of the most renowned and profound quotes and sayings about cats and their lovers.
Famous Cat Quotes
- How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. Robert A. Heinlein
- Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. Walter Lionel George
- A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin
- Time spent with a cat is never wasted. Colette
- What greater gift than the love of a cat? Charles Dickens
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Albert Einstein
- Cats will outsmart dogs every time. John Grogan
- Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched. Miguel de Cervantes
- I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living. Ursula Andress
- My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. William S. Burroughs
- Cats choose us; we don’t own them. Kristin Cast
- I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
- I used to love dogs until I discovered cats. Nafisa Joseph
- Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. James Herriot
- A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
- If you want to write, keep cats. Aldous Huxley
- I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order. Trisha McCagh
- I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. Jules Verne
- Cats have it all — admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. Rod McKuen
- Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. James Mason
- Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain
- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine
- Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. P.J. O’Rourke
- People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. Henry Morgan
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Jeff Valdez
- If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer. A.N. Whitehead
- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
Funny Cat Quotes
- 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
- Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. Pam Brown
- When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? Montaigne
- Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. Stephen Baker
- As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. Ellen Perry Berkeley
- In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett
- The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. Paula Poundstone
- There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. Dan Greenberg
Black Cat Quotes
- Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack. English Proverb
- A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx
- When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween. Unknown
- Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat. Deng Xiaoping
- Black cat on a fence; Halloween two days hence. Rusty Fischer
- Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there. Steve Davidson
- When the tea is brought at five o’clock, and all the neat curtains are drawn with care, the little black cat with bright green eyes is suddenly purring there. Harold Monro
- Black cat on a fence; Halloween two days hence. Rusty Fischer
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