To meow or not to meow, that's the question...
by Shakespurr.


We, the cats, are philosophers, don't you know that? When we sit still and stare at the two-legged, we are examining them and wondering very much about their strange behaviors. That's why we get tired easily from all these mental activities and end up sleeping most of the day.
Some of the great minds among the human species do appreciate us! The quotes below are 'paw-approved'. =^.,.^=
Cats are connoiseurs of comfort.
by James Herriot
Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken then they awaken them ten minutes earlier.
by Jim Davis
Ever thought what pets think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow... They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth.
by Unknown
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful, it suggests idea of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
by Charles Pierce Baudelaire
Of all God's creature there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash, That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it will deteriorate the cat.
by Mark Twain
To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
by Erasmus Darwin
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
by Joseph Wood Krutch
When I played with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
by Michel do Montaigne
A kitten is to the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
by Robert Southey
Cats don't have to be put on pedestals---they put themselves there.
by Unknown
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
by Hippolyte Taine
You have now learned to see,
That cats are much like you and me,
And other people whom we find,
Possessed of various types of mind.
by T.S.Eliot
In the cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
An English Proverb
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
by Leonardo da Vinci
I think that one reason why we admire cats -- those of us who do -- is their profiency in one-upsmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing -- or pretend they do.
by Babara Webster
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
by Champfleury
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
by A.S.J.Tessimond
Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
by Edward Topsell
The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying.
An English Proverb
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
Mary Bly
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Ellen Perry Berkeley
One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Reynard
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
James Gorman
A meow massages the heart.
Stuart McMillan
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
Saki
She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.
Henry David Thoreau
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Theophile Gautier
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
Roy Blount, Jr.
With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats?
Fernand Mery
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor
A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate.
Elizabeth LeMarchand
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