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Sometimes, it's hard to think of the correct words to describe your lazy friend. The one with whiskers, to avoid any innuendos. Into the rescue come cat quotes! However, before sticking them onto a greeting card for your cat-loving friend, you might want to know more about these feline creatures. They don’t constantly scratch and tear up furniture like movies portray them.
Since cats purr and take day-long beauty sleep, they are associated with laziness. Like dogs themselves, they do become buds of multiple animal jokes. However, a different story is seen if you were to take a closer look at quotes about cats. Several of these quotes describe cats as mysterious yet very extroverted creatures. However, you can be sure that several cat quotes poke innocent fun at them, too.
So, it might be time to stop purring around, and about the time you take a look at our collection of cat sayings. Read, memorize, and use them to caption photos of your feline roommates on Instagram — these quotes are so good that you must do all three. If you rest all day like a lazy cat on a hot summer day, look below and upvote the phrases you liked the most. Also, if you have more animal quotes to share, do so in the comments.
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#1
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana
What Should I Caption My Cat Picture?
Cat quotes can also accompany the picture of your feline friend. Here are some cute caption ideas about cats you can use for social media:
- Lazy as a cat;
- Life is better with a cat;
- There are no ordinary cats;
- One cat just leads to another;
- Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
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#2
“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
Brenda White 2 years ago
Yes! Read James Herriot. He's inspiration for ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
Michele Garrard 2 years ago
He wasn't the inspiration for the book, he was the actual author. The book is based on his real life experiences
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Joe Standford 2 years ago
Fun fact cats rubbing their chin and face against you is to mark you with their scent letting other cats know who you belong to.
#3
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” - Mason Cooley
What Cats Teach Us About Life?
Dogs might inspire you to go out on the run, while a cat will do the opposite. As mentioned above, cats like to sleep a lot — more than the average working person. Maybe, on a weekend or a stress-free day, we should take a moment to relax. Drop the errands momentarily, kick back on your chair, and sleep like a cat. If this type of life is not for you — get a dog too! You’ll get the best of both worlds.
#4
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
#5
"Your house will always be blessed with love, laughter, and friendship if you have a cat.” - Lewis Carroll
What Does the Cat Symbolize in Life?
Dogs symbolize loyalty. But what does a cat represent? Well, if you are a fan of these feline creatures, you might agree with the virtues of:
- Independence
- Intelligence
- Purrfercion (A pun for you to enjoy)
These values are displayed in multiple tattoos people have gotten on their bodies. For example, in yin-yang tattoos, cats suggest that our lives are balanced and harmonious. In pet tattoos, cats usually symbolize a personal connection with their owner. Owners typically get tattoos of their feline friends to memorialize them. However, there are also several cases where the cat is usually tattooed for the beauty factor alone.
#6
"What greater gift than the love of a cat?" - Charles Dickens
#7
“I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.” - Amy Lee
Hafida 2 years ago
My ex bf once told me I wish you loved me as much as you love your cat. And it came from deep emotions at that moment.
Phyllis Bradley 2 years ago
And was your heartfelt response, “I wish I did too.”?
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
#9
“I wish that my writing was as mysterious as a cat.” - Edgar Allan Poe
#10
“Cats leave paw prints in your heart, forever and always.”
#11
“A cat doesn’t care if you are smart or dumb, give him your heart and he will give you his.” - Abraham Lincoln
Sonja 2 years ago
Cats are very social and have close bonds with their can openers. But people tend to forget that cats are prey animals AND predators, while dogs are mainly predators. Like any smallish prey animal, cats tend to run away from their loved ones if they deem a situation dangerous, it's an attempt to confuse possible predators and give both a better chance to escape, while dogs stay together and fight. So both show their love in often completely opposite ways. For example a dog with happily come towards you and give you little jiffs and smiles to show you it's happy, a cat will show you its butt, but that's a compliment because it's turning it's most vulnerable site towards you while pointing its claws and fangs towards possible danger, looking out for you while you can rub on its sides and its fur in peace, knowing it will warn you if danger should appear. A more recent study showed that most cats have closer bonds with their people than many dogs. They keen and hide when left behind.
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“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 humankind.” – Cleveland Amory
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
I like cats, but I never viewed them as creatures with “enormous patience.”
#13
"Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance." - Dan Greenburg
#14
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” - Leonardo da Vinci
#15
“Just watching my cats can make me happy.” – Paula Cole
#17
"Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time." - Seanan McGuire
#18
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” - James Herriot
#19
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” - Ernest Hemingway
#20
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain
#21
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau
#22
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” - Hippolyte Taine
#23
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” – Abraham Lincoln
#24
“Kittens are angels with whiskers.” – Alexis Flora Hope
#25
"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them." - Terry Pratchet
Sonja 2 years ago
It's a citation from one of his books. He writes a lot about witches
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"One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping." - Cleveland Amory
#27
"The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry." - French proverb
#28
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
#29
“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.”
#30
“All you need is love and a cat.”
#32
"Cats have a sense of humor, as is shown in their extreme love of play. A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game." - William Lyon Phelps
#33
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” - Terry Pratchett
#34
“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.” – Robert Southey
#35
"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
#36
"Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
#37
"A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it." - Joseph Epstein
Joe Standford 2 years ago
Cats have literally trained themselves to use the actual toilet.
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It actually doesn't toilet train at all, again, a cat is also a prey animal. It has the strong instinct to hide everything that could make its presence known. So it's their instinct to dig over their feces to hide the smell from potential predators. So they use the litter box because it's best for following it's instincts.
Michele Garrard 2 years ago
I had two cats together and the older one "allowed" the younger to cover his droppings for him, otherwise they were displayed for all to see. This was in the time before clumping litter too
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LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Cats only pee on the floor for a reason. They're trying to tell you something. The box is dirty, they have a medical issue, one cat is guarding the box from the other...whatever, they're unhappy about something. Your job as a good cat parent is to figure out why their doing it and fix the problem.
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“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.” – Robert A. Heinlein
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago (edited)
This man started his own religion. Edit to add that Coralee Hicks is right. I’m wrong. I was thinking of L. Ron Hubbard. Please just ignore me.
Coralee Hicks 2 years ago
Wrong! You might be thinking of L. Ron Hubbard Scientology dude. Heinlein wrote philosophy cloaked as sci fi.
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#40
"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens... that whatever you say to them, they always purr." - Lewis Carrol
#41
"Happy is the home with at least one cat." - Italian proverb
#42
“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.” - William S. Burroughs
Bruce Martin 2 years ago
“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.” ― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside
#43
“One cat just leads to another.” - Ernest Hemingway
#44
"Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in." - Will Rogers
#45
“Dogs eat. Cats dine."
#46
“The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” – George Will
#47
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne
#49
“I’m not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they’re really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.” – Michael Showalter
#51
“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” – Rod McKuen
#52
“Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” – Kristin Cast
The wee giant 2 years ago
Exactly, self domestication is just a term that means a species has domesticated us
#54
“Cats are only human; they have their faults.” - Kingsley Amis
#55
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
#56
“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Davis
#57
"In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats." - English proverb
#58
"If stretching made money, all cats would be wealthy."
#61
“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
#62
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” – W. L. George
#63
"I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are too good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human." - L. M. Montgomery
The wee giant 2 years ago
Cats think that you are their kitten, that is why they bring you dead mice
#64
"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer." - Paula Poundstone
#65
"I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer." - Peter S. Beagle
#66
"The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see and scratches everything he can scratch." - Francois Rene
#67
"When the mouse laughs at a cat, there’s a mouse hole nearby." - Nigerian proverb
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
“When a cat ignores a mouse, there is a catfish nearby.” - kitten levels tokyo proverb.
#68
"The cat was created when the lion sneezed." - Middle Eastern proverb
#70
"A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays." - English proverb
#71
"A house without a dog or cat is the house of a scoundrel." - Portuguese proverb
#73
"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 title?" - Mark Twain
#74
"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
#75
"He who hunts with cats will catch mice." - Danish proverb
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
“He who bathes with cats will smell nice.” tokyo levels kitten proverb.
#77
"Cats, like men, are flatters." - Walter Savage Landor
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
I think he may mean that cats are flat-earthers. (But I could be wrong.)
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"Dogs look up to us; cats look down on us; pigs treat us as equals." - Martin Gilbert
#80
"Cat sentimentality is a human thing. Cats are indifferent, their minds can't comprehend the concept 'I shall d*e,' they just go on living." - Gavin Ewart
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
Dear Mr. eWart, how do you know what goes on in the mind of a cat?
#81
"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
#82
"When rats infest the Palace a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse." - Chinese proverb
#84
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another." - Susanna Clarke
#85
"If you want to write, keep a cat." - Aldous Huxley
#86
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." - Garrison Keillor
Sonja 2 years ago
Said about one of the best natural pest controls on the planet that was domesticated to keep mice and rats in check
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
Garrison Keillor is just contrary by nature.
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"No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen." - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
#89
"Cats don’t catch mice to please God." - Afghanistan proverb
#90
"After dark all cats are leopards." - American proverb
#91
“I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.” - Nafisa Joseph
#92
"Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase." - Oswald Barron
#93
"The cat in gloves catches no mice." - Benjamin Franklin
#94
"Cats seem to go on the principles that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch
#95
"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
#96
"Cats can obviously rise to considerable mental heights, at least when they want to satisfy their lower instincts." - Akif Pirincci
#98
"The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend." - Spanish proverb
#100
"Cats, I always think, only lump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat." - Anne Enright
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
This is actually true, according to multiple medical examiners.
#103
"A blind cat catches only a dead rat." - Chinese proverb
#104
"Confound the cats! All cats-always- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey; by night a nuisance and by day- confound the cats!" - R. O. Thomas Dobbin
#105
"Cat: a soft indestructible automation provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle." - Ambrose Bierce
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
NO! F**k you, Ambrose Bierce. I hope you’re in Hell, shrunk down to cat size, and being eternally kicked by human-size cats.
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