Quotes About Pet Cats

#1. You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

Dave Barry

#2. It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Eleanor Porter

#3. I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

Anna Quindlen

#5. I've always been mad about cats.

Vivien Leigh

#6. Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.

Munia Khan

#7. Recruit your pet as a study partner. Cats are usually more than happy to do this - in fact, you may have trouble keeping them off keyboards and books - and dogs will often serve as well. Few things are more relaxing than having a warm, furry creature next to you as you study.

Stefanie Weisman

#8. Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick
in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

Andrew Vachss

#9. If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Douglas Coupland

#10. One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Nafisa Joseph

#12. Emma had honest-to-God fantasies about stopping by a pet store and getting a cat. Emma was allergic to cats. That's how bad things were.

Anonymous

#13. I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.

Anna Quindlen

#14. My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

Dan Harmon

#15. Just because I can communicate with cats doesn't mean they'll actually listen to me." ~Jaron Greenberg, pet psychic

J.D. Ruskin

#16. Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.

Laini Taylor

#17. He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

Thomm Quackenbush

#18. Cats don't like change without their consent.

Roger Caras

#19. Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Mason Cooley

#20. I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

James Herriot

#21. This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.

Nils Uddenberg

#22. Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day?

Christina Rossetti

#23. The way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Ron Reagan

#25. Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma's lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.

Dennis Vickers

#26. Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Mason Cooley

#27. Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Donna Andrews

#28. Ceelie preferred cats and small dogs, although they tended to be eaten by alligators around here, as she recalled. Munchability wasn't a desirable trait in a pet.

Susannah Sandlin

#29. 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

#30. I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

#31. 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 kind.

Cleveland Amory

#32. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

W. L. George

#33. Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

Benvenuto Cellini

#34. Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Paula Cole

#35. Did he eat the other cats at the pet shop? He's huge!

Yori

#36. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.

Debra Dunbar

#37. It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

#38. I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.

Paula Poundstone

#39. People blanch to see "fish meal" or "meat meal" on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal
which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones
most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.

Mary Roach

#40. Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Kaspar Hauser

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

Jim Davis

#42. I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet.

Connor Franta

#43. I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

#44. Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard

#45. Sweet bleedin' Christ," Bones interrupted. "Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we're
already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we'll get you more cats.

Jeaniene Frost

#46. Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

Antonio Banderas

#47. Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#48. Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

#49. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch