Funny Cat Quotes

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Ellen Perry

Love, Cat, Animal

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People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

Faye Resnick

Hate, Cat, People

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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happy, Humorous, Cat

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

T. S. Eliot

Cat, Thinking, Names

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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

Cat, Eye, Animal

Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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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

Cat, Animal, Humanity

Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.191, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Hank Ketcham

Mean, Cat, Animal

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

Eloisa James

Dog, Cat, Animal

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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

William Ralph Inge

Cat, Animal, Humanity

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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

George Mikes

Dog, Cat, Animal

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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Andre Norton

Cat, Animal, Humanity

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A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

Louis J. Camuti

Cat, Pockets, Want

Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Hector Hugh Munro

Cat, Animal, Humanity

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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory

Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

Cat, Animal, Two

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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs

Cat, Pet, Individualism

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

Cat, Eye, Kitten

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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

Funny, Dog, Cat

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor

Nature, Cat, Garden

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens

Cat, Animal, Humanity

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

Time, Cat, Animal

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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

Cat, Animal, Humanity

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Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

Sleep, Cat, Pet

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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

William S. Burroughs

Cat, Pet, Doe

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

Cat, Feel Good, Way

Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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