Having a cat in the family is a joy that brings with it funny moments, unique challenges, lots of pampering, and more than a little bit of mischief. To celebrate the unique experience of cat ownership, we’ve rounded up 50 cat quotes that all cat owners can relate to. Whether your cat is a sophisticated angel or a playful whirlwind zooming through your home, these cat quotes sum up cat ownership in a nutshell.
“I have been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”—Bill Dana
“When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”—Seanan McGuire
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”—Terry Pratchett
“You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.”—Jane Pauley
“Cats have it all—admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”—Rod McKuen
“It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.”—Cynthia E. Vernado
“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.”—Paula Poundstone
“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.”—Tay Hohoff
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”—Albert Schweitzer
“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.”—Ellen Perry Berkeley
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”—James Herriot
“Dogs eat. Cats dine.”—Ann Taylor
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“One cat just leads to another.”—Ernest Hemingway
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.”—Hazel Nicholson
“A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there’s not a thing you can do about it.” —Frank Perkins
“The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.”—Susan Easterly
“The cat is above all things, a dramatist.”—Margaret Benson
“You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.”—George Mikes
“Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you.”—Mary Bly
“The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.”—Lynn M. Osband
“Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.”—Stephen Baker
“There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.”—Jules Champfleury
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”—Pam Brown
“Everything I know I learned from my cat: when you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner.”—Gary Smith
“The trouble with sharing one’s bed with cats is that they’d rather sleep on you than beside you.”—Pam Brown
“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”—Dan Greenberg
“Cats do care. For example, they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.”—Michael Nelson
“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
“A cat can purr its way out of anything.”—Donna McCrohan
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”—Jules Renard
“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
“Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.”—Stephen Baker
“If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.”—J.A. McIntosh
“A cat isn’t fussy—just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.”d—Arthur Bridges
“Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.”—Roy Blount, Jr.
“Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don’t know he’s there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.”—Terri Guillemets
“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.”—Eleanor Farjeon
“To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction—and a cat. The last ingredient is usually the hardest to come by.”—Stephen Baker
“Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.”—Lillian Johnson
“Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.”—Louise A. Belcher
“…It would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.”—Barbara Holland
“A cat is an adorable violation of the laws of physics.”—Terri Guillemets
“Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there’s a bowl of milk in it for them.”—Robin Williams
“Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.”—Stephen Baker
“An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.”—Carl Van Vechten
“A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.”—Louis J. Camuti
“Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”—Miguel de Cervantes
“When I feel bad I just look at my cats and my courage returns.”—Charles Bukowski
“A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.”—Jules Champfleury
“No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.”—Leo Dworken
That’s it for our roundup of cat quotes that get cat ownership exactly right! Which quote best sums up your experience?
