Cat Quotes

This is Jack Daniels my beautiful, gorgeous cat!
I grew up with dogs but realized a few years ago that I am more of a cat person.
I think that one has to truly understand and be gentle with a cat, they have so much personality it just takes patience learning to appreciate them. They are very sensitive creature.

being gay and not having any human children I think we tend to dote on our fluffy "children" and spoil them rotten!

Found some really interesting cat quotes.

Cat Proverbs, Sayings & Quotes

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
Colonial

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

Settling a dispute through the law is like losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese

A cat goes to a monastery, but still she remains a cat.
Congolese

The cat is a saint when there are no mice about.
Japanese

The cat is a lion to the mouse.
Albanian

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.
Portuguese

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.
Hebrew

Handsome cats and fat dung heaps are the sign of a good farmer.
French

Beware of people who dislike cats.
Irish

Who cares well for cats will marry as happily as he or she could ever wish.
French

An old cat will not learn how to dance.
Moroccan

A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards.
Netherlands Antillean

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
Nigerian

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

If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch.
Yiddish

To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
German

A cat has nine lives; for three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.
English-American

A cat with a straw tail keeps away from fire.
English

Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain!
Dutch

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

If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.
African

One should not send a cat to deliver cream
Yiddish

The cat--moon eats the gray mice of night.
Western Europe

When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Western Europe

It's for her own good that the cat purrs.
Irish

Cats don't catch mice to please Khoda(God).
Afgani

Fat cats and thin birds can share a yard, but thin cats and fat birds no way!
Rosicrucian

Like the cat in the tree, getting caught up in the chase can leave us in an awkward place.
Rosicrucian

The cat laps the moonbeams in the bowl of water, thinking them to be milk.
Zen Saying

If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat became a wild animal.
Nigeria

In even a cat the Buddha-nature exists.
Japanese Buddhist

It is useless to show the gold piece to a cat.
Zen Saying

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Irish

It's a brave bird that makes its nest in the cat's ear.
Hindi/Indian

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
Chinese

He who does not feed his cat will feed rats.

Dogs are dogs, but cats are people.

When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
Iranian

Beware of the cat that licks from the front but claws from behind.
Old English Proverb

A trapped cat becomes a lion.
Old English Proverb

Life's like cat vomit; if you don't clean it up right away, you're going to step in it.
Xnterna

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
Charles Baudelaire

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. 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

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

The cat is nature's beauty.
French

The dream of cats is all mice.
Egyptian

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

No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless my cats are there to welcome me.
Scottish

Dogs see people as companions; cats see people as staff.

It is better to feed one cat than many mice.
Norwegian

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.
Robert K. Massie

You see, the wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein

When the cat is not home, the mice will dance on the table.
Dutch

When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
T.S. Eliot

A cat in her house has the teeth of a lion.
Somali

A kitten can catch only a baby mouse.
Ghana

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter when I tell you a cat must have three different names...
T.S. Eliot

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
Mark Twain

What greater gift than the love of a cat?
Charles Dickens