The 95 best phrases about cats

Many believe that cats are not as good home company as dogs, due to their individualism and independent character that makes them one of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom. However, this is totally wrong, cats can be excellent companion animals, because Although they love their freedom, they also love to have a home.

A curious fact is that cats are highly recommended to combat stress thanks to the relaxing power emitted by their purrs. In addition, they help you keep your home free of pests and teach you that love is synonymous with freedom.

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great quotes and phrases about cats

To commemorate these pets, we bring below a series of phrases about cats and the lessons they leave in our lives.

1. Paradise will never be paradise unless my cats are there waiting for me. (Epitaph)

Many love cats more when it comes to having a pet.

2. When I play with my cat, who knows if she is not having more fun with me than I am having fun with her.

Referring to the belief that we are actually the pets of cats.

3. The cat possesses beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, all the virtues of man without his vices.

Unique characteristics of cats.

4. If a universal sound had to be chosen for peace, I would vote for the purr. (B.L. Diamond)

Who is not relaxed by the sound of cat purring?

5. A cat can also be your best friend.

Felines can love their owners too.

6. Time spent with cats is never wasted. (Sigmund Freud)

Cats are said to have therapeutic benefits.

7. It is good to have cats around. If one feels bad, his company fills everything.

They always make us smile.

8. What greater gift than the love of a cat? (Charles Dickens)

When you understand a cat, you will have his unconditional love.

9. Cats have it all; admiration, endless sleep and company only when they want it. (Rod McKuen)

Cats are even an example to follow.

10. It is a very difficult task to win the affection of a cat; He will be your friend if he feels that you are worthy of his friendship, but not your slave. (Theophilus Gautier)

The way cats agree to be your friends.

11. The cat is reproached for his taste for being at ease with him, his predilection for the softest furniture where to rest or play; just like men. From stalking weaker enemies to eat them; just like men. To be reluctant to all obligations; just like men, once again.

What many detest about cats is their resemblance to humans.

12. Cats are independent, which means intelligent.

The most outstanding feature of felines.

13. God made the cat to offer man the pleasure of stroking a tiger. (Victor Hugo)

Who has not compared cats to tigers?

14. Cats take away all ills.

Again talking about its positive benefits.

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15. As every cat owner knows, no one owns a cat. (Ellen Perry Berkeley)

Cats don't know about being chained.

16. When I feel bad, I just look at my cats and my courage returns.

They even help us with our security.

17. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be enslaved on the leash. The cat. (Mark Twain)

Cats are more than pets.

18. A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. (Hazel Nicholson)

There is always an element of mystery in cats.

19. You will never leave me, and nothing can separate us. You are my cat and I am your human. Now and always, in the fullness of peace. (Hillaire Belloc)

A metaphor about true love.

20. Cats don't need to be owned; they are evil in themselves. (Peter Kreeft)

There is also the belief that cats possess evil.

21. The animal that the Egyptians worshiped as divine and the Romans revered as a symbol of the freedom, has shown in all ages two closely related characteristics: courage and self I respect.

Cats were considered gods in ancient Egypt.

22. Actually the house belongs to the cat and we pay the mortgage. (Anonymous)

Talking about how cats feel like homeowners.

23. I am a cat lover and always will be.

Once you love felines, you won't be able to stop.

24. Any household with at least one feline limb does not need an alarm clock. (Louise A. Belcher)

Cats help us keep a schedule.

25. The smallest of the kittens is a true work of art and how such, you have to take care of them. (Leonardo da Vinci)

There is nothing more adorable than little kittens.

26. I believe that cats are spirits incarnated on earth. A cat, I'm sure, could walk on a cloud without going through it. (Julio Verne)

Another reference to the spiritual character of cats.

27. Dogs come when called; the cats receive the message and attend to you later. (Maria Bly)

Hence the strange belief that cats are insensitive.

28. Cats have absolute emotional honesty; human beings, for one reason or another, can hide their feelings, but the cat cannot. (Ernest Hemingway)

Here we see how the writer opposes the above belief.

29. Elegance wanted body and life, that's why it became a cat. (William of Aquitaine)

There is no doubt that cats have a graceful demeanor.

30. A meow is a massage to the heart.

Meows are special.

31. I wish my writing was as mysterious as a cat. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Cats have also been sources of inspiration.

32. A kitten transforms the return to an empty house into the return home. (Pam Brown)

Pussycats can be as warm as dogs.

33. Sleeping with a cat is the best remedy.

Sleeping with our pets becomes a great habit.

34. Cats are meant to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. (Garrison Keillor)

Perhaps these animals are the most spontaneous beings.

35. Cats instinctively know the exact time their owners are going to wake up, and they wake them up a little earlier. (Jim Davis)

This is why they act as alarm clocks and alarms.

36. If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. (Mark Twain)

An interesting analogy on the part of the writer.

37. I love cats because I love my home and little by little they become its visible soul. (Jean Cocteau)

They can be the joy of any home.

38. Of course you can love a cat more than a man. In fact, man is the most horrible animal in creation. (Brigitte Bardot)

A funny comparison that has a bit of truth.

39. I am the cat that walks alone and all places look like me. (Rudyard Kipling)

We always go to places with which we feel most connected.

40. I might end up like one of those crazy old ladies with sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors complain about the smell, and it turns out that I have died and the cats have eaten me. Still, it might be nice to have a cat. (Alex Flinn)

There are those who will always think that cats are not good company.

41. When the cat's tail is raised, he has nothing on his plate. (Saying)

Cats get upset when they are treated unfairly.

42. The stealthy cat is always by your side.

These animals know the nature of the person they are with.

43. Cats seem to behave on the principle that it never hurts to ask for what you want. (Joseph Wood Krutch)

Cats teach us that we must have more courage.

44. Cats can mathematically deduce the exact place to sit that will cause further complications. (Pam Brown)

A funny phrase about the destructive capacity of cats.

45. If a cat spoke, it would be to say things like 'hey, I don't see any problem here'. (Roy Blount Jr.)

Cats seem to take it all in stride.

46. People who hate cats will come back like mice in their next life. (Faith Resnick)

Are you one of those who hate or love cats?

47. When cats dream, they adopt the august attitudes of sphinxes reclining against loneliness, and seem asleep with an endless dream; magical sparks shoot from their fluffy haunches and gold particles like fine sand vaguely constellate their mystical pupils. (Charles Baudelaire)

A beautiful vision of the felines.

48. It is good to have a lot of cats around. If you feel bad, he looks at the cats and feels better, because they know that things are the way they are. (Charles Bukowski)

Talking about kittens restoring self-confidence.

49. There are no ordinary cats. (Colette)

All cats are special.

50. I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats. (Eckhart Tolle)

Cats express tranquility.

51. Cats deserve all your respect.

All animals deserve to be treated well.

52. In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. (Terry Pratchett)

Reference to cat egocentricity.

53. Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot make eight cats pull a sled through the snow. (Jeff Valdez)

The intelligence of felines is recognized.

54. The cat is above all things. (Margaret Benson)

They teach us therefore to have confidence in ourselves.

55. A cat is not picky, as long as you remember that he likes to drink the milk in the pink plate and eat the fish in the blue plate, from which he will take it out to savor it on the floor. (Arthur Bridges)

Each kitten has the peculiarities of him just like people.

56. I'm as alert as a cat to steal cream. (William Shakespeare)

Cats are attentive to what they want.

57. Dogs regard us as their gods, horses as their equals, but cats regard us as their subjects. (Winston Churchill)

There is no one who can tame a cat.

58. Man has two means of taking refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Albert Schweitzer)

Cats can ease our sadness.

59. Cats possess so many human-like qualities that it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between people and cats. (PJ O'Rourke)

Do you know someone who has the characteristics of a cat?

60. A cat always sits next to you without making noise.

Cats are not picky.

61. Elegance in cats is not a virtue, if not a reality.

It is an inherent feature of his essence.

62. A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. (George Mikes)

They may seem indifferent, but they love to be loved.

63. People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts out there. (Susan Easterly)

This is said because the love of cats is the closest to true love.

64. I consider cats to be one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of the highest order. (Trisha McCaig)

Many find peace and happiness with their cat pets.

65. Cats are gentle masters, as long as you remember your own place. (Paul Gray)

Again it shows us that cats do not tolerate injustice.

66. In the eyes of the cat, all things belong to cats. (English proverb)

Speaking of his selfish instinct.

67. Cats always find their place in the home.

Any kitten has its corner in the house.

68. Those who play with cats should expect to be scratched. (Miguel de Cervantes)

This shows us that even those who love us can hurt us.

69. Sleeping with a cat is an experience that will fill your life with calm and some back pain.

Good things come with some inconvenience.

70. The way to get along with a cat is to treat him as an equal, or even better, as the superior you know him to be. (Elizabeth Peters)

Cats will not tolerate minor treatment.

71. It is not necessary to show cats how to have a good time, as they are unfailingly resourceful in that regard. (James Mason)

All felines know how to entertain themselves.

72. To keep a true perspective of our worth, we should all have a dog that adores us and a cat that ignores us. (Derek Bruce)

An excellent reason to have both pets.

73. Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. (Desmond Morris)

Cats are more akin to artists.

74. A cat allows you to sleep in bed. At the border. (Jenny D.)

You can believe the owners of anything.

75. There are times when the wisdom of cats is superior to that of people.

Animals tend to be more amazing than humans.

76. The problem with cats is that they always have the exact same appearance on their face whether they see a moth or a killer with an ax. (Paula Poundstone)

Referring to the impassive face of the felines.

77. A cat will always tell you the truth with her gaze.

It is with her gaze that we see her expressiveness.

78. "Miau" means "wow" in cat language. (George Carlin)

This sentence shows us that cats can be on an equal footing with dogs.

79. She loved dogs until I discovered cats. (Nafisa Joseph)

This change is very common when life is experienced with both.

80. The city of cats and the city of men exist one within the other, but they are not the same city. (Italo Calvino)

They may be similar but they will never be the same.

81. The cat is the only animal that has managed to domesticate man. (Marcel Mauss)

Is this true?

82. If you intend to write, have cats. (Aldous Huxley)

Cats seem to get along well with writers.

83. You can never be the owner of a cat, you will only be his companion. (Harry Swanson)

This is the relationship you must have with your cat.

84. I had been told that the cat training procedure is difficult. It is not like this. Mine trained me in two days. (Bill Dana)

These animals have a lot to teach us.

85. If your cat falls out of a tree, don't laugh in his face. (Patricia Hitchcock)

Even cats must train their skills.

86. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. (James Herriot)

They are experts in finding comfort in thousands of things.

87. You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. (Jane Pauley)

Watching them sleep is a pleasure.

88. I speak in Spanish to God, in French to men, in Italian to women… and in Latin to my cat. (Emperor Charles)

Talking about how we have our own language with cats.

89. I have studied many philosophers and cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. (Hippolyte Adolphe Taine)

Do you think we can learn absolute things with these felines?

90. Cats are like tattoos. When you have one, you are already thinking of having another.

You never want to stop having a cat.

91. Cats are mysterious.

Without a doubt.

92. When a cat purrs you can be sure that it is pleased, which is more than can be said for humans. (William Ralph Inge)

The purr is the greatest sign of happiness.

93. Cats steal your heart first, then your bed, sofa, and food.

Cats have the ability to fully enter your life.

94. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. (Garrison Keillor)

Cats flow with life.

95. If I prefer cats to dogs, it is because there are no police cats. (Jean Cocteau)

A metaphor that we can interpret as that cats do not judge you.