Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
- Unknown
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
- Mary Bly
Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
- Unknown
If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.
- Naomi, 15 Advice from Kids
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
- Agnes Repplier
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier
A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.
- Bill Adler
A human may go for a stroll with a cat; he has to walk a dog. The cat leads the way, running ahead, tail high, making sure you understand the arrangement. If you should happen to get ahead, the cat will never allow you to think it is following you. It will stop and clean some hard-to-reach spot, or investigate a suspicious movement in the grass; you will find yourself waiting a fidgeting like the lackey you are. But this is not annoying to cat lovers, who understand and appreciate a good joke, even when it is on them.
- Robert Stearns
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
- Unknown
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
- Unknown
If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
- Nan Porter
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"You are fond of cats?" said Mrs. Gardner, with a slight intonation of tolerant wonder.
Anne, despite her affection for Rusty, was not especially fond of cats, but Mrs. Gardner's tone annoyed her. ... "They are adorable animals, aren't they?" she said wickedly.
"I have never liked cats," said Mrs. Gardner remotely.
"I love them," said Dorothy. "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, Anne of the Island
Emily ... didn't know exactly what to say, so she said, a bit lamely, "I see you have a cat."
"Wrong." Father Cassidy shook his head and groaned dismally. "A cat has me."
- L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression...
- Beverly Nichols
Cats simply ought not to go about radiating such distracting charm.
- Beverly Nichols
He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.
- John Casper Lavater
If a dog jumps on 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
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of a cat who suffered from insomnia.
- Garrison Keilor
God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.
- Fernand Mery
With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask, would be capable of being cats?
- Fernand Mery
Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
- Jeff Valdez
If cat poop was worth money, we'd be rich!
- Anonymous
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Most cats, when they are out they want to be in, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
- George Will
After dark all cats are leopards.
- Native American Proverb (Zuni)
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
- Colette
"I'm not fat, I'm fluffy."
- Unknown
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
- Stephen Baker
CAT: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
- Oliver Herford
Dog vs. Cat Philosophy
A dog thinks, "Wow, these humans feed me, love me, pet me, and brush me. They must be God!"
But a cat thinks, "Wow, these humans feed me, love me, pet me, and brush me. I must be God!"
- Unknown
"Look at me! Why are you looking at me? Stop looking at me! LOOK at me! Why are you looking at me? STOP looking at me! Come on, just look at ME! Why on earth ARE you looking at me? Will you just quit looking at me? Arrggh, I give up. The stupidity of these humans amazes me."
- Anonymous
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
- George Will
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
- Jules Reynard
Cats pride themselves on their ability to do nothing.
- John R. Breen
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
- Pam Brown
All you have to remember is Rule 1: when in doubt - Wash.
- Paul Gallico
Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant.
- Maurice Burton
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
- Jane Pauley
You can keep a dog, but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
- George Mikes
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