If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing

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

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Martin Delany

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.
Antonio Banderas

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.
Mark Mobius

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne

In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.
Asa Hutchinson

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.
Mickey Rivers

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
James Denton

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Virginia Woolf

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
Anthony Bourdain

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke