Cats

*Authors are unknown, unless otherwise noted.

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.
~ Mugsy Peabody

A dog is prose, a cat is a poem.
~ Jean Burden

Cats come and go without ever leaving.
~ Martha Curtis

Dogs eat. Cats dine.
~ Ann Taylor

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

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
~ Charlotte Gray

If a dog jumps in 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.
~ Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

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

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~ Collette

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

One cat just leads to another.
~ Ernest Hemingway

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
~ Ernest Menaul

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

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

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

Does it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world -- cool grassy nests in hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet -- the cat chooses to sit on your lap?
~Nevada Barr

Cats are like potato chips... you can't have just one!

Who can believe there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?
~Theophile Gautier

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

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
~Adlai Stevenson

In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
~Roseanne Amberson

The cat is a dilettante in fur.
~Theophile Gautier

Dogs remember faces, cats places.
~English saying

The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by.
~Southern folk saying

The cat sees through shut lids.
~English saying

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

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

I gave an order to the cat, and the cat gave it to its tail.
~Chinese proverb

A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them.
~Sidney Denham

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
~Dr. Louis J. Camuti

A cat is nobody's fool.
~ Heywood Broun

He loved books, and when he found one open on the table he would lie down upon it, turn over the edges of the leaves with his paw, and after a while, fall asleep, for all the world as if he had been reading a fashionable novel.
~Theophile Gautier

All you have to remember is Rule 1:
When in doubt ~ Wash.
~Paul Gallico

At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, "Time to feed the cat," as if it were their own idea.
~Lilian Jackson Braun

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

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

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
~Ed Howe

The cat is utterly sincere.
~Fernand Mery

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
~Dr. Louis J. Camuti

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
~Yakaoka Genrin

Everything that moves serves to interest and amuse a cat.
~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

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

To please himself only the cat purrs.
~Irish Proverb

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
~Agnes Repplier

As a kitten, this cat never slept on the outside of the bed.  She waited until I was in it, then she walked all over me, considering the possibilities.
~Doris Lessing

The cat is the mirror of his human's mind, personality, and attitude, just as the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.
~Winifred Carriere

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat.  He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment.  He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
~Theophile Gautier

Cats are admirably designed to be curious.
~Erik Gurney

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 humor.
~Walter Chandoha

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

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

Cats will always lie soft.
~Theocritus

For me, one of the pleaures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort.
~Compton Mackenzie

The really great thing about cats is their endless variety.  One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color scheme, income, personality, mood.  But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
~Eric Gurney

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

Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere, but to explore.
~Sidney Denham

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

I suspect that many an ailurophobe hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is ~ more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not.
~Winifred Carriere

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

It is as easy to hold quicksilver between your fingers and thumb as to keep a cat who means to escape.
~Andrew Lang

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

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
~Compton Mackenzie

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve.  The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
~William Conway

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.
~H.G. Frommer

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
~Compton Mackenzie

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

A cat in the room chases out all the gloom.
~Gotcha Images

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
~ Gotcha Images

A cat will come to "kitty, kitty, kitty" if not engaged in something
more interesting.

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
~Doug Larson

A dog comes when it's called....a cat takes a message and gets back to you.

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

A house without a cat is like a garden without flowers.

After dark all cats are leopards.
~Native American Proverb (Zuni)

And thou shall have dominion over all the beasts.... except, of course, for the cat.

Anything not nailed down is a CAT TOY!

CAT, n: (1) A lap warmer with a built-in buzzer.

Cats are angels with fur.

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

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

Cats have a special way of adding love to every day.

Cats leave pawprints on your heart and your window sills, and sink and tablecloth and clean laundry, dishes, car, couch.......

Cats will jog with you - you just have to carry them.

Dogs have owners.... cats have staff.

Dogs think they are human...Cats know they are.

Dogs Think They're Human, Cats Think They're God

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

Friends like you are the CATS MEOW!

Have a merry mice Christmas and a purr-fect new year.

Have a PURR-fect Birthday!

Have you hugged your cat today?

How happy can a person be? I love my cat and she loves me!
~Gotcha Images

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. 
~ Jean Cocteau

I was nothing until my cat adopted me.

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

If you want the best seat in the house - just move the cat.

If you want the most comfortable chair you'll have to move the cat.

I'm in charge today....my cat said so.

In cats' eyes, all things belong to cats. 
~ English Proverb

It's not easy being purr-fect, but somebody has to do it.

Love me - Love my cat.

My cat lets me live here .

My cat is not hyper... just TERRIBLY ALERT!
~Gotcha Images

My CAT owns my heart!

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my cat thinks I am.

Next to the cat, I love you best.

No home is complete without the patter of kitty feet.

One neglected dog and one spoiled rotten cat live here.

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

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
~ Doug Larson

Take a cat to lunch today.

The only person who understands me is my cat!

The only self cleaning device in this house is the cat.

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

When all else fails, hug your cat.

This home is blessed with love, laughter, family, friends and a cat.

This house is maintained for the comfort and convenience of the cat.

This house is maintained for the sole comfort of the cat.

Your cat loves you when no one else does.

Four Paws In Heaven
Your favorite chair is vacant now...
No eager purrs to greet me
No softly padded paws to run
Ecstatically to meet me
No coaxing rubs, no plaintive cry
Will say it's time for feeding
I've put away your bowl,
And all the things you won't be needing
But I will miss you little friend,
For I could never measure
The happiness you brought me,
The comfort and the pleasure.
And since God put you here to share
In earthly joy and sorrow
I'm sure there'll be a place for you
In Heaven's bright tomorrow...
~ Mary Alice Chase

The Creation of the Cat
On the first day of creation, God created the cat.
On the second day, God created man to serve the cat.
On the third day, God created all the animals of the earth to serve as potential food for the cat.
On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the cat.
On the fifth day, God created the sparkle ball so that the cat might or might not play with it.
On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the cat healthy and the man broke.
On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but He had to scoop the litter box.

The Rainbow Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called the Rainbow Bridge. When an animal who has been especially close to someone here dies, that pet goes to the Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who have been ill and old are restored to health and vigour; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. With bright eyes intent and with eager body beginning to quiver your precious friend begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, on legs running faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together ...