Throughout the ages, many famous people have made observations on the nature of cats and cat lovers. The following are some of their more noteworthy musings.
Quotations the Benefits of Cat Ownership
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.” ~Albert Schweitzer
“Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.” ~Susanne Millen
“There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.” ~Louis J. Camuti
“The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambole is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.” ~Lady Sydney Morgan
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” ~Charles Dickens
“Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.” ~Lloyd Alexander
“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” ~Tay Hohoff
“When I’m in the doghouse, my cats still come to visit.” ~Unknown
“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.” ~Pam Brown
“You can tell your cat anything and he’ll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you.” ~Helen Powers
“For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.” ~Christopher Smart
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” ~Colette
“Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won’t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.” ~Helen Powers
“Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.” ~Gladys Taber
“Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.” ~Unknown
“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 its title?” ~Mark Twain
Quotations on Cat Owners
“Cat people are different to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be with a cat running their lives?” ~Louis J. Camuti, DVM
“A cat’s name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat.” ~Linda W. Lewis
“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.” ~Eric Gurney
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.” ~Martin Buxbaum
“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 and 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
“It occurs to me that I can’t remember ever reading about a murderer who gave house room to, or was fond of, a cat.” ~P.D. James
Quotations on the Nature of Cats
“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.” ~Ellen Perry Berkeley
“If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.” ~Theophile Gautier
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?” ~Michel De Montaigne
“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
“A cat is there when you call her – if she doesn’t have something better to do.” ~Bill Adler
“Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.” ~Louise A. Belcher
“It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.” ~Robley Wilson, Jr.
“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 the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.” ~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
“A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk.” ~Unknown
“In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.” ~Michael Zullo
“A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.” ~Jenny De Vries
“Cats love one so much – more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.” ~Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
For more cat quotes, see Funny Cat Quotations.
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