Cat Quotes

A few of my favourite cat related quotations, sayings and wise words.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert Heinlein

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
Matthew Arnold

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

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
William Shakespeare

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
Nan Porter

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Warren Eckstein

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

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
Unknown

Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
Unknown

Touch not the cat but a glove
Sir Walter Scott

"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"
Lewis Carroll