370 Quotes About Cats and Kittens

When the cat runs over the roofs, the mice dance across the floors.

Honoré de Balzac

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

Jenny De Vries

Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

The cat: An Animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

Evan Esar

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people because cats find humans useful domestic animals. A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter a cat. A dog is an employee; the cat is a freelance.

George Mikes

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

Jim Davis

Dogs sit still when one tells them to; cats sit still only while deciding whether to jump to the mantel or into someone's lap.

Muriel Beadle

There is one way in which cats differ from all other animals and that is in the effect they have on human beings.

Patricia Dale-Green

I'm used to dogs. When you leave them in the morning they stick their noses in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you return eight hours later. A cat would never put up with that kind of rejection. When you returned, she'd stalk you until you dozed off and then suck the air out of your body.

Erma Bombeck

Curiosity is inborn. The cat is fascinated by his surroundings — even the smallest happening makes him eager for fresh adventures. New ground has to be explored in minute detail and every object examined; parcels are sniffed, as if the cat were trying to guess the contents; an unknown visitor is examined from head to foot to find out what he may be thinking, and if the answer is satisfactory, will be approached. The cat likes to watch you working and to know what you are doing.

Gillett Grilhe

Cats are ... very critical of a great many things they encounter in their lives. That is one of the greater feline paradoxes; once they accept an individual or the members of a household, they can be doglike, they are so non-judgmental. But when it comes to strangers, human or animal, food, and all the elements that make up their lives, they can be hard to please.

Roger A. Caras

The cat in the abstract — a beautiful, graceful, athletic animal. A cat, yours, is a soiled litter box, hair on the chrome coffee table, and something you have to feed and take into account if you travel. A cat, like any animal, is a commitment.

Roger A. Caras

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