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Quotes about cats and their graceful independence. This hand-picked collection brings together 21 of the finest cats quotes ever written — from Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, English Proverb and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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

Decaffeinated coffee is like a hairless cat. It exists, but that doesn't make it right.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted; it is an investment in contentment.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

— Mark Twain

Curiosity killed the cat.

— English Proverb

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

Cats choose us; we don't own them.

Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement and love without penalties.

— T. S. Eliot

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

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

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

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

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.

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