Words for Cats
Fluffy lap-monster or lean, mean hunter? Find the right words to describe your four-legged friend below.
- active
- affectionate
- agile
- agreeable
- alert
- amusing
- anxious
- beautiful
- behavioral
- beloved
- best
- big
- bossy
- bright
- bright-eyed
- calico
- calm
- caring
- catlike
- cheerful
- chill
- chubby
- clean
- clever
- clumsy
- comic
- courageous
- crafty
- crazy
- crazy cute
- cuddly
- curious
- curled up
- cute
- daring
- delicate
- demanding
- dependent
- devoted
- dog-friendly
- domestic
- domesticated
- dominant
- eager-to-please
- likable
- little
- long-haired
- lovable
- loved
- loving
- loyal
- mellow
- merry
- mischievous
- moody
- muscular
- mysterious
- naughty
- needy
- neurotic
- neutered
- orange
- outgoing
- pampered
- part-dog
- people-friendly
- perfect
- personable
- picky
- playful
- pleasant
- pouncing
- precious
- pretty
- priceless
- protective
- purebred
- purrfect
- purring
- queenly
- quick
- quiet
- quirky
- ready-to-please
- rebellious
- regal
- relaxed
- rescued
- entertaining
- faithful
- family-friendly
- fast
- feline
- fixed
- fluffy
- foolish
- four-legged
- friendly
- frisky
- fun
- funny
- furry
- fuzzy
- gentle
- giant
- good
- good-natured
- goofy
- gorgeous
- graceful
- greedy
- grumpy
- handsome
- happy
- healthy
- heartwarming
- hilarious
- housebroken
- huggable
- hungry
- in good health
- independent
- instinctual
- intelligent
- jolly
- joyful
- keen
- kid-friendly
- kindhearted
- kingly
- laidback
- lazy
- rubbing
- scratchable
- scrawny
- scruffy
- sensitive
- shiny
- short-haired
- shy
- silly
- sleek
- sleepy
- smart
- sneaky
- snuggly
- soft
- spayed
- spoiled
- spoiled rotten
- spotted
- spry
- stray
- stubborn
- submissive
- sultry
- superior
- sure-footed
- sweet
- tabby
- temperamental
- territorial
- timid
- tortoiseshell
- tough
- trainable
- trained
- trustworthy
- trusty
- unique
- warm
- well-bred
- wild
- willing
- wonderful
- action
- affection
- agility
- alpha cat
- animal
- animal shelter
- antics
- attention-seeker
- beast
- behavior
- best friend
- big baby
- big heart
- breed
- buddy
- cat
- cat bath
- cat collar
- cat food
- cat litter
- cat person
- cat tower
- cat toy
- cat treat
- cat tree
- catnip
- charmer
- claw
- coat
- collar
- leash
- life companion
- listener
- litter box
- lovebug
- lover
- markings
- master
- mate
- meow
- microchip
- monster
- mood
- motor
- mouse
- mouser
- my baby
- nap
- napper
- nose
- outside cat
- owner
- pal
- paw
- personality
- playmate
- princess
- pure breed
- purr
- purrer
- companion
- confirmation
- couch potato
- curiosity
- disposition
- ears
- fast learner
- feline
- fluff ball
- four-legged family member
- friend
- fur
- fuzz ball
- good boy
- good girl
- goofus
- groomer
- habits
- hunger
- hunter
- individual
- inside cat
- instinct
- kibble
- killer
- king
- kitteh
- kitties
- kitty
- lap monster
- running water
- scratcher
- senses
- show off
- sleep
- smell
- snuggle bug
- snuggler
- source of entertainment
- stranger
- stress reliever
- sweetheart
- tail
- talker
- teeth
- temperament
- thief
- tomcat
- training
- training method
- treat
- trip to the vet
- tyke
- vet
- veteranarian
- watchcat
- wet food
- whiskers
- yarn
- adopt
- adore
- aims to please
- baby
- bat around
- bathe
- beg
- behave
- bite
- brush
- care for
- chase
- chase mice
- claws
- clean
- climb
- command
- cozy up to
- cuddle
- curl up
- entertain
- mark
- meow
- neuter
- own
- pamper
- pet
- play
- play with
- point
- poop
- pounce
- praise
- protect
- provide for
- purr
- reward
- rip apart
- roll
- romp
- rub
- run
- entrust
- exercise
- explore
- feed
- fight
- follow
- follow around the house
- frolic
- give love
- go on the hunt
- greet
- groom
- guard
- hear
- housebreak
- hunt
- interact
- kiss
- learn
- listen
- love
- scratch
- shake
- shed
- show off
- shreds
- smell
- sniff
- snooze
- snuggle
- spay
- spoil
- take care of
- take on a walk
- tinker with
- toy with
- trust
- twitch the tail
- walk
- whine
- worship
- afraid
- afraid of water
- aggressive
- allergic
- allergy
- annoying
- anxious
- attacks
- awake all night
- bad
- bad habits
- beg
- begger
- berserk
- biter
- bites
- biting
- bossy
- can't be left alone
- can't be trusted
- chaser
- chases cars
- chewer
- chews
- chubby
- clingy
- clumsy
- cooped up
- covered in fleas
- covered in mud
- crazy
- dangerous
- inbred
- jumpy
- lazy
- lonely
- loner
- lost
- lost
- loud barker
- mean
- misbehaved
- misbehaves
- mischievous
- moody
- naughty
- needy
- nervous
- neurotic
- noisy
- obstinate
- odd
- overly fearful/timid/shy
- overprotective
- overweight
- paces
- pacing
- panics
- pees on the furniture
- picky about food
- possessive
- punishment
- ran away
- ratty
- dehydrated
- demanding
- destroys
- destroys
- destroys the furniture/blinds/carpet/drapes
- destructive
- destructive behavior
- dig
- digger
- dirty
- disobedient
- domineering
- dumb as rocks
- eager-to-fight
- euthanize
- expensive
- fat
- fearful
- feral
- fleas
- freaked out
- frustrating
- gets on the counters
- greedy
- grimy
- health issues
- hider
- hides
- high-strung
- homeless
- hyper
- hyperactive
- result of overbreeding
- rowdy
- runs away
- runs away
- scared
- scared in new environment
- scrawny
- separation anxiety
- shaky
- shedder
- sheds
- shredder
- shreds
- smells bad
- smelly
- sneaky
- spoiled
- stinky
- stray
- stressful
- stressful to own
- stubborn
- stupid
- temperamental
- territorial
- thin
- toy possessive
- unwilling
- urinary problems
- wetter
- whine
- whiner
- a cat's life
- act like a fat cat
- acts like the queen/king of the house/world
- always at-the-ready to []
- always happy to see me
- always ready to play
- always there to give love/affection/snuggles
- bad kitty!
- brilliant and stupid at the same time
- here, kitty kitty
- is more like a dog
- kitty cat
- licks his/her bowl clean
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- look what the cat dragged in
- loves to have her belly rubbed/be petted/be spoiled
- my little monster/baby/snuggle bug
- natural/killer instincts
- cat got your tongue?
- constant source of entertainment/love/frustration
- curiosity killed the cat
- dances to her/his own beat
- dances to the beat of his/her drum
- everybody's best friend
- four-legged family member
- greets you at the door every day
- has a good/great/loyal/friendly temperament
- she was a naughty, naughty kitten
- sometimes best friends are furry
- the best [] in the world
- the ultimate stress reliever at the end of the day
- there will never be another cat like [cat's name]
- thinks she is a [cat/breed bigger in size]
- thinks she/he is human
- A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. -William Ralph Inge
- A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. -Louis J. Camuti
- A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. -Judith Merkle Riley
- A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. -Indian Proverb
- A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. -Hazel Nicholson
- A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. -Proverb
- A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. -Unknown
- A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. -Mark Twain
- A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. -Joseph Epstein
- A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. -Joseph Epstein
- 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. -Arthur Bridges
- A cat pours his body on the floor like water. -William Lyon Phelps
- A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world. - Irish Legend
- A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. -Jerome K. Jerome
- A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since 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 dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. -Jean Burden
- A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. -Henry David Thoreau
- 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 meow massages the heart. -Stuart McMillan
- 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
- Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue. -Sidney Denham
- Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. -Andre Norton
- An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. -Carl Van Vechten
- An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old. -Carl Van Vechten
- Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. -Paul Corey
- Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. -Louise A. Belcher
- As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. -Ellen Perry Berkeley
- As we all know, cats now rule the world. -John R.F. Breen
- Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. -Robertson Davies
- Before a cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream. -T.S. Eliot
- By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. -Barbara Holland
- 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
- 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
- Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it." - Unknown
- Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. -Dan Greenburg
- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. -Garrison Keillor
- Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. -Stephen Baker
- Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. -Joseph Wood Krutch
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. -Jeff Valdez
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. -Jeff Valdez
- Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. -James Gorman
- Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. -P.J. O'Rourke
- Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. -P.G. Wodehouse
- Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. -Roger Caras
- Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. -Pam Brown
- Cats come and go without ever leaving. -Martha Curtis
- Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length. -Frank Perkins
- 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
- Cats don't like change without their consent. -Roger A. Caras
- Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it. -Arthur Bridges
- It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. -Agnes Repplier
- It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. -Cynthia E. Varnado
- It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. -Adlai Stevenson
- It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. -Robley Wilson, Jr.
- It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage. -Unknown
- Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. -Proverb
- Kittens are angels with whiskers. -Unknown
- 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
- Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. -F.A. Paradis de Moncrif
- Kittens can happen to anyone. -Paul Gallico
- Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. -George F. Will
- Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. -Hank Ketchum
- Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. -Stephen Baker
- Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. -Louis J. Camuti
- 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
- My cat speaks sign language with her tail. -Robert A. Stern
- 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
- No heaven will not ever Heaven be unless my cats are there to welcome me. -Unknown
- No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. -Abraham Lincoln
- Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. -Compton MacKenzie
- Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. -Stephen Baker
- One cat just leads to another. -Ernest Hemingway
- One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. -Helen Thomson
- One must love a cat on its own terms. -Paul Gray
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. -Mark Twain
- One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. -Barbara Webster
- Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. -Colette
- People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. -Charlotte Gray
- People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet. -Deborah A. Edwards
- People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. -Faith Resnick
- People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. -Susan Easterly
- Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. -Jean Burden
- Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. -Robert Brault
- Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. -Monica Edwards
- She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go. -Missy Altijd
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -Henry David Thoreau
- Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives. -Unknown
- Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. -Lillian Johnson
- Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. -Missy Dizick
- 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. -Astrid Alauda
- The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. -Doug Larson
- The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. -William S. Burroughs
- The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness. -Patricia Dale-Green
- The cat is above all things, a dramatist. -Margaret Benson
- The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. -Saki
- The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by. - Southern Folk Saying
- The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. -Colette
- The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. -Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
- The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. -Carl van Vechten
- The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet. -Proverb
- Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. -Lillian Jackson Braun
- Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there's a bowl of milk in it for them. -Robin Williams
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. -Joseph Wood Krutch
- Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs. -Val Schaffner
- Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. -Paul Gray
- Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene. -Barbara L. Diamond
- Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you. -Mary Bly
- Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. -Mary Bly
- Dogs eat. Cats dine. -Ann Taylor
- Dogs have owners, cats have staff. -Unknown
- Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another. -Irving Townsend
- Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven. -Lenny Rubenstein
- Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -John Weitz
- Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats. -Unknown
- 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
- For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. -Unknown
- Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts. -George Freedley
- God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger. -Fernand Mery
- Honest as the cat when the meat's out of reach. - Old English Saying
- I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. -William Shakespeare, Henry IV
- I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. -Jules Verne
- I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. -Debbie Peterson
- I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. -Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
- I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. --Bill Dana
- I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. -Unknown
- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. -Hippolyte Taine
- I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -Jean Cocteau
- I named my kitten Rose - fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns. -Astrid Alauda
- I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. -Edgar Allan Poe
- If a dog jumps into 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
- 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
- If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. -Pierre Loti
- If cats could talk, they wouldn't. -Nan Porter
- If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart. -Alan Devoe
- If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. -Arthur Weigall
- If only cats grew into kittens. -R. Stern
- If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro. -Bruce Fogle
- If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. --Lloyd Alexander
- If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. -J.A. McIntosh
- If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. -Barbara L. Diamond
- If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. -Martin Buxbaum
- If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. -Lemony Snicket
- Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. -Mark Twain
- In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. -English Proverb
- In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. -Terry Pratchett
- In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. -Dereke Bruce
- In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. -Warren Eckstein
- In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence. -Rosanne Amberson
- It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. -Eleanor Farjeon
- The cat was created when the lion sneezed. -Arabian Proverb
- The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. -Italo Calvino
- The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. -French Proverb
- The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else. -Lawrence N. Johnson
- The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. -Jules Reynard
- The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. -Mark Twain
- The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. -George Will
- The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. -Paula Poundstone
- The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds. -K.C. Buffington
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. -Leonardo da Vinci
- The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. -H.G. Frommer
- The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -Michael McGarel
- The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.-Ogden Nash
- The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. -E.W. Howe
- There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. -Tay Hohoff
- There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. -Tay Hohoff
- There are no ordinary cats. -Colette
- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -Albert Schweitzer
- There has never been a cat Who couldn't calm me down By walking slowly Past my chair. -Rod McKuen
- There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. -Jules Champfleury
- There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. -Unknown
- There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone. -Louis J. Camuti
- There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. -Dan Greenberg
- There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. -Wesley Bates
- Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. -Proverb
- Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. -Unknown
- Time spent with cats is never wasted. -May Sarton
- 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
- To err is human, to purr is feline. -Robert Byrne
- Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. -Jim Davis
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain
- What greater gift than the love of a cat? -Charles Dickens
- When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky. -Mike Deupree
- When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? -Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
- When the cat's away, the mice will play. - Folk Saying
- When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness. -Missy Altijd
- Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack. - Folk Saying
- Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? -Karen Brademeyer
- Who hath a better friend than a cat? -William Hardwin
- Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? -Irish Saying
- Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? - Irish Saying
- Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. -Helen M. Winslow
- You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. -George Mikes
- You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. -Jane Pauley
- You own a dog but you feed a cat. -Jenny de Vries
- You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. -Proverb
- Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner. -Barbara L. Diamond
- 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