A collection of quotations by famous people who love cats as WE do!

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

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings for reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. -- Ernest Hemmingway

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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. -- Edgar Allan Poe

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. -- Aldous Huxley

Cats are truly simple. If we want to eat, we eat; if we want to sleep, we sleep; when we are angry, we are angry utterly; when we cry, we cry with all the desperation of extreme commitment to our grief. Thus we never keep things like diaries. We live our diaries, and consequently have no need to keep a daily record as a means of maintaining our real characters. Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect: sleeping on the veranda. -- Soseki Natsume (I Am a Cat)

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

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? -- Fernand Mery, French writer

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind. -- H.G. Wells

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.  That one is the cat.  If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. -- Mark Twain

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

Meow is like Aloha.  It means anything. -- Hank Ketchum, creator of "Dennis the Menace"

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, American author

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.  A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. -- Jules Verne

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

I like pigs.  Dogs look up to us.  Cats look down on us.  Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill

Dogs believe they are human.  Cats believe they are God. -- Anonymous

Dogs think: "This person feeds me, protects me, pets me...he must be God!"
Cats think: "This person feeds me, protects me, pets me...I must be God!"  -- Anonymous

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. -- Charles Baudelaire

The walking of a cat is the instinctive realization of all that is most delicate. -- Soseki Natsume

As we all know, cats now rule the world. -- John R. F. Breen, author of Who's Who of Animals

Cats rule, dogs drool! -- Sassy, in Homeward Bound

The cat, an aristocrat, merits our esteem, while the dog is only a scurvy type who got his position by low flatteries. -- Alexandre Dumas

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats.  The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. -- Hippolyte Taine

I have found my love of cats most helpful in understanding women. -- John Simon

Like a graceful vase a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. -- George Will

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.  They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.  -- Cleveland Amory, in The Cat Who Came for Christmas

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

Who hath a better friend than a cat? -- William Hardwin

Are cats lazy?  Well, more power to them if they are.  Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes? -- Fernand Mery

Maybe the reason that so many people love the cat is that she is the only example that you can breathe in the presence of man without becoming his slave -- and maybe that is why, so many people hate her. -- Heinrich Saas

If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. -- Mark Twain

There are no ordinary cats. -- Colette

We are odd indeed to think that we alone of all God's creatures are worthy of recognition for I am certain beyond question that when the last day arrives, our company will swell with fox, raven, hare, and rat, and when we are finally admitted we will see sharpening her nails upon His most resplendent throne, God's favorite unrepentant calico cat. -- Mary Margaret Carlisle

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence. -- Rosanne Amberson

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. -- James Herriot, English veterinarian-author

Time spent with cats is never wasted. -- Colette

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them they always purr. -- Lewis Carroll

I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat. -- Jay Leno

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. -- James Mason

No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me. -- Epitaph in a pet cemetery

Ardent lovers and austere scholars all love cats. -- Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. -- Anonymous

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

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings.  She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. -- Jerome K. Jerome, English author

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. -- William Ralph Inge

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? -- Montaigne

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use. -- Mark Twain

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. -- Arthur Weigall

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering your cat around. -- Anonymous

You know you've been in bed too long when even the cat doesn't want to sleep anymore. -- Anonymous

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. -- Carl Van Vechten, American photographer

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

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with. -- Lady Sydney Morgan, Irish author

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. -- William Ralph Inge

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" -- Samuel Butler

Sometimes the veil between human and animal intelligence wears very thin -- then one experiences the supreme thrill of keeping a cat, or perhaps allowing oneself to be owned by a cat. -- Catherine Manley, English writer

Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. -- Sidney Denham

I love cats because I enjoy my home, and little by little, they become its visible soul. A kind of active silence emanates from these funny beasts ... who move in a complely royal authority through the network of our acts, retaining only those that intrigue or comfort them. -- Jean Cocteau, French poet and filmmaker

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. -- French Proverb

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. -- Mary Bly

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. -- Joseph Wood Krutch, nature writer

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. -- English proverb

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

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

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

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

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind.  They slip, diminshed, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. -- A.S.J. Tessimond

A cat pours his body on the floor like water.  It is restful just to see him. -- William Lyon Phelps

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.  True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. -- Missy Dizick

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. -- Colonial American proverb

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

Beware of people who dislike cats. -- Irish proverb

I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul. -- Jean Couteau

My girlfriend said it was her or the cats.   I miss her sometimes. -- Anonymous

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

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

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. -- Saki

It is needless to spend any time over her loving nature to man, how she flattereth by rubbing her skin against one's legs, how she whurleth with her voice, having as many tunes at turnes, for she hath one voice to beg and to complain, another to testify her delight and pleasure, another among her own kind by flattering, by hissing, by puffing, by spitting, in so much that some have thought that they have a peculiar intelligible language among themselves. --Edward Topsell

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another. -- Irving Townsend

A cat may look at a king. -- Old adage

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

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. -- Carl Van Vechten

Happy is the home with at least one cat. -- Italian Proverb

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. -- Jean Burden

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them.  They do not always care enough to do anything about it. -- Winifred Carrière

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. -- F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal -- or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. -- Elizabeth Peters

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. -- Jules Champfleury

Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions.  His tail is a mirror of his mind.  His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humour. -- Walter Chandoha

The best exercise for a cat is another cat. -- Jo and Paul Loeb, American animal trainers and writers

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. -- Christopher Smart, English poet

May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep -- Anonymous

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

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English proverb

My love she is a kitten, and my heart's a ball a string. -- Anonymous

Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed? -- Winifred Carrière

A cat is nobody's fool. -- Heywood Broun, American journalist

It has been the providence of Nature to give the cat nine lives instead of one. -- Bidpai (circa 326 B.C.)

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

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the contemplative life.  He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. -- Andrew Lang

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. -- Karel Capek, Czech writer

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals. -- Anonymous

The cat is above all things, a dramatist. -- Margaret Benson

It's an honor to paint cats. -- Oliver Johnson

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

What kind of philosophers are we who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? -- Henry Thoreau

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

My cat knows the song in my heart and purrs it to me when my memory fails. -- Anonymous

No intelligent person can be conceited in the presence of a cat.  No living creature can so ignore.. -- Hippolyte Taine

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

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. -- Tay Hohoff

Love is like a cat.   It goes wherever it pleases and pleases wherever it goes! -- Anonymous

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. -- Barbara L. Diamond

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again.  Nor upon a cold stove lid. -- Mark Twain

It is no easy task to win the friendship of a cat.  He is a philosopher, sedate, tranquil, a creature of habit, a lover of decency and order. He does not bestow his regard lightly, and, though he may consent to be your companion, he will never be your slave.  Even in his most affectionate moods he preserves his freedom, and refuses a servile obedience.  But once gain his confidence, and he is a friend for life.  He shares your hours of work, of solitude, of melancholy.  He spends whole evenings on your knee, purring and dozing, content with your silence, and spurning for your sake the society of his kind. -- Theophile Gautier, from La Menagerie Intime

A cat can climb down from a tree without the assistance of the fire department or any other agency.  The proof is that no one has ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree.   -- Anonymous