Yggdrasil's Collection of Cat Quotes

This is a collection of my favourite cat quotes .....

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." Jules Reynard

"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
Hippolyte Taine

"There are no ordinary cats." - Colette

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." - Leonardo da Vinci

"If man could be crossed with the cat,
it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"Nothing's more playful than a young cat,
nor more grave than an old one." - Thomas Fuller

"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."
- Sir Walter Scott





"Cats know how to obtain food without labor,
shelter without confinement and love without penalties." - W. L. George

"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 mind."
Cleveland Amory

"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights.
His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the foolish things that complicate life."
Carl Van Vechten

"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow.
But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves."
Mary Wilkins

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

"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do." - Bill Adler

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights.
That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln

"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat,
may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?"
Mark Twain





"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape,
then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."
Doris Lessing

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.
Cats have never forgotten this."
Anonymous

"Cats are smarter than dogs.
You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez

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

"There are many intelligent species in the universe.
They are all owned by cats."
Anonymous

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, dignity, and courage that cats have,
how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats?"
Fernand Mery

"A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall,
like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate."
Elizabeth LeMarchand

"A cat can purr its way out of anything." Donna McCrohan





"I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible."
R.H. Blyth, from Zen and Zen Classics V4

"Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."
Sir Walter Scott

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor,
shelter without confinement and love without penalties."
W. L. George

"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 mind."
Cleveland Amory

"Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated...
Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.
Lesley Anne Ivory

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen,
and see the cat smiling into her fur
as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue.
Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.
She looks up and gives me her full gaze.
Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.
Dilys Laing

"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

"She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her,
a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole,
the possible entry of a mouse."
Henry David Thoreau






"A meow massages the heart." Stuart McMillan


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