One thing that will always cheer me up is cat quotes. It is the nature of cats to be independent and terribly cute. From Jule Verne to Charles Bukowski, writers seem to have a thing for cats. Let’s find our happy place, shall we?!

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

Albert Schweitzer

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Mason Cooley

One cat just leads to another.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Terry Pratchett

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Hippolyte A. Taine

The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.

George Will

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Neil Gaiman

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Kittens are angels with whiskers.

Alexis Flora Hope

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

Jules Verne

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

Rod McKuen

You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

Jane Pauley

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

Pam Brown

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

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

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 realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Christopher Hitchens

when I am feeling

low

all i have to do is

watch my cats

and my

courage

returns

Charles Bukowski

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

Peter S. Beagle

While there are many more awesome quotes about cats, 20 are about as many as one can digest. Maybe we need a part two on cat quotes?

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