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"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." Mark Twain

"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" Fernand Mery

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

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. -- John Dobbin

Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats! -- Michelle Gardner

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner. -- Gary Smith

Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say. -- Matt Groening, 1993

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. -- Pablo Picasso

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill

I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. -- Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... -- T.S. Eliot

The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel

We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. -- Megan Coughlin

When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? -- Montaigne

You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same. -- Jack Wright (of Kingston, Ontario, the Guinness Book record holder for the owner of the most cats at one time [689])

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. -- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."--Charlotte Gray

"A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."--George Mikes

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."--George Mikes

"You own a dog but you feed a cat."--Jenny de Vries

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." Missy Dizick

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."--Helen Thomson

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." Anonymous

"A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."--Sarah Thompson

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."--Paul Gray

"One must love a cat on its own terms."--Paul Gray

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

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

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her entertainment value. Geoffrey Household

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. A. N. Whitehead

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch

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

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? Fernand Mery

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? Montaigne

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. Dan Greenberg

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. Leo Dworken

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. Roger Caras

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. George F. Will

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

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. Barbara Holland

A meow massages the heart. Stuart McMillan

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

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

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. Winifred Carriere

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. Wesley Bates

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. P. G. Wodehouse

Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. Stephen Baker

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. Jean Burden

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. Lynn M. Osband

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. James Mason

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. Hank Ketchum

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. Missy Dizick

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. Ellen Perry Berkeley

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. Robert A. Heinlein

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. W. L. George

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. Cleveland Amory

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. Emile Auguste Chartier

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog. Eleanor Clark

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. Stephen Baker

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

If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. Mark Twain

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci

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

You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. Sir Harry Swanson

There are no ordinary cats. Colette

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. William Lyon Phelps

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. Warren Eckstein

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. Tay Hohoff

One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. Barbara Webster

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Reynard

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. Stephen Baker

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life. Andrew Lang

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends... Saki (H. H. Munro)

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. St. George Mivart

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. Louis F. Camuti, DVM

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. George F. Will

By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. Colette

Intelligence in the cat is underrated. Louis Wain

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. Jim Davis

Her function is to sit and be admired. Georgina Strickland Gates

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

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. Andrew Lang

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. Jules Champfleury

If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed. Winifred Carriere

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier

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

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

"Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time."--Roger Caras

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties." - W. L. George

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind." - Cleveland Amory

"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." - Carl Van Vechten

"Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." - John Weitz

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." - Faith Resnick

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - Anonymous

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." - Dave Platt

"Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated...
Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.
- Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory)

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue.
Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.
She looks up and gives me her full gaze.
Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.
- from "Miao" by Dilys Laing

"A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human." --Unknown

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a lot of ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." --Joseph Wood Crutch

"You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense." --Jane Pauley

"There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it...The cat covers it up if he can..." --Paul Gallico

"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life." --Faith Resnick

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." --Unknown

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." --Unknown

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart" --Ernest Menaul

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer." --Paula Poundstone

"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him." --Drew Barrymore

"We have a theory that cats are planning to take over the world, just try to look them straight in the eye...yup, they're hiding something!" --Dog Fancy

"Most cats, when they are out want to be in, and visa versa, and often simultaneously." --Louis J. Camuti

"When you are looking, a cat acts like a princess, but the minute they think you are not looking, a cat acts like a fool." --KC Buffington

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." --Garrison Keillor

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

"Cats are designated friends." --Norman Corwin

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." --Joseph Wood Crutch

Civilization is defined by the pesence of cats." --Unknown

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." --Mark Twain

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." --Doug Larson

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." --Ellen Perry Berkeley

"If a dog jumps in 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

"His mind is like a steel trap--full of mice." --Foghorn Leghorn

"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls." --Eric Gurney

"I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?" --Wendy Liebman

"Prose book are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." --Robert Graves

"Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat." --Byron Nelson

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is." --H.G. Frommer

"He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail." --Lloyd Alexander

"Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility." --Stephen Baker

Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off." --Michael Nelson

"You may own a cat, but cannot govern one." --Kate Sanborn

"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see." --Eleanor Farjeon

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron." --George Will

"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself." --Unknown

"Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor." --Walter Chandoha

"A dog is like a liberal, he wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't really need to know that everybody loves him." --William Kunstler

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old." --Carl Van Vechten

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds." --KC Buffington

"If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?" --Unknown

"Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him." --Lynn Hollyn

"There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat." --Tay Hohoff

"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom." --Robley Wilson, Jr.

"Way down deep we are all motivated by the same urges, cats have the courage to live by them." --Jim Davis

"Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun." --Lloyd Alexander

"There is no cat 'language'. Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one." --Barbara Holland

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." --May Sarton

"The furry little buggers [cats] are just deep, deep wells you throw your emotions into." --Bruce Schimmel

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

"Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it."--Arthur Bridges

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."--Henry David Thoreau

"If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company."--Lloyd Alexander

"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."--Paul Gray

"Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'"--Rudyard Kipling, from the "Just-So Stories"

To err is human, to purr is feline. -Robert Byrne

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. -Anonymous

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.-Leonardo Da Vinci

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.- Colette

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.- Jules Reynard

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.- Nan Porter

Every life should have nine cats.-Anonymous

Dogs eat. Cats dine.- Ann Taylor

...You are my cat and I am your human. - Hilaire Belloc

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.-Hippolyte Taine

A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.- Bill Adler

Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?- Robert Stearns

A cat can purr its way out of anything.- Donna McCrohan

My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.- Colette

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.- Arthur Symons

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

A meow massages the heart.- Stuart McMillan

The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.-Bruce Schimmel

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.- Hazel Nicholson

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.- Hank Ketchum

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.-Mugsy Peabody

Some cats is blind, And stone-deaf some, But ain't no cat Wuz ever dumb.- Anthony Euwer

"The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle."--Roseanne Ambrose Brown

"Poets generally love cats--because poets have no delusions about their own superiority."--Marion Garretty

"Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment."--Paul Gallico, from "An Honourable Cat"

"I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficience in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing--or pretend to do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them."--Barbara Webster, from "Creatures and Contentments"

"Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously."--Dr. Louis J. Camuti

"Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf."--Charlotte Gray

"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."--Patricia Hitchcock

French novelist Colette was a firm cat-lover. When she was in the U.S. she saw a cat sitting in the street. She went over to talk to it and the two of them mewed at each other for a friendly minute. Colette turned to her companion and exclaimed, "Enfin! Quelqu'un qui parle francais." (At last! Someone who speaks French!) --Anonymous

"A cat isn't fussy--just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor."--Arthur Bridges

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they /always/ purr."--Lewis Carroll

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."--Pam Brown

"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique."--Jenny de Vries

"There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience."--Allen and Ivy Dodd

"Places to look: behind the books in the bookshelf, any cupboard with a gap too small for any cat to squeeze through, the top of anything sheer, under anything too low for a cat to squash under and inside the piano."--Roseanne Ambrose-Brown

"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."--Pam Brown

"Cats like doors left open--in case they change their minds."--Rosemary Nisbet

"Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door."--Pam Brown

"The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you."--Pam Brown

"A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge."--Jenny de Vries

"All cats like being the focus of attention."--Peter Gray

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?"--Michel E. de Monaigne

"People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote."--Charlotte Gray

"Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them."--Compton MacKenzie

"If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again." ~ Mark Twain

"It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat." ~ Anonymous

"When addressed, a gentleman cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard." ~ Mary Sarton

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog--a cat's a cat." ~ T. S. Eliot

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier

"It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming." ~ Adlai Stevenson

"Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular--with some justification, unfortunately--consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce." ~ Lloyd Alexander

"The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, ... still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside." ~ Saki

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she to me?" ~ Montaigne

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is." ~ H. G. Frommer

"When anyone mistreats it, the cat wants nothing more to do with that person and will remember him or her for a long time. It doesn't believe in the doctrine of turning the other cheek and won't pretend that it does." ~ Lawrence N. Johnson

"A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it." ~ Joseph Epstein

"I purr, therefore I am." ~ Anonymous

"Cats are living adornments." ~ Edwin Lent

"What greater gift than the love of a cat?" ~ Charles Dickens

"People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet." ~ Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.

"I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William." ~ Josh Billings

"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly." ~ Andre Norton

"A cat doesn't know what it wants and wants more of it." ~ Richard Hexem

"For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort." ~ Sir Compton Mackenzie

"It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me." ~ Irving Townsend

"I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent." ~ Ann Morrow Lindbergher

"If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented." ~ Charles Dudley Warner

"People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around." ~ Susan Easterly

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical." ~ William S. Burroughs

"Is it yet another survival of jungle instinct, this hiding away from prying eyes at important times? Or merely a gesture of independence, a challenge to man and his stupid ways?" ~ Michael Joseph

"When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'." ~ Susan McDonough, D.M.V.

"Cats do care. For example, they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning; and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off." ~ Michael Nelson

"Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue." ~ Sidney Denham

"A cat is never vulgar." ~ Carl Van Vechten

"I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets." ~ Kinky Friedman

"Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance." ~ Dan Greenburg

"Cats are successful underachievers. They only need to purr in order to get free food and TLC. What other creature can lay around the house doing nothing beyond purring, and still get free food and TLC?" ~ Jim Aites

"Could the purr be anything but contemplative?" ~ Irving Townsend

"Cat people are different to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be with a cat running their lives?" ~ Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.

"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats." ~ Marge Percy

"Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort." ~ Paul Corey

"You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you." ~ Helen Powers

"Cats are much like they were when they were first domesticated. They are very independent because they had to be to survive." ~ Dr. Raymond Hampton

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort." ~ James Herriot

"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings." ~ William Ralph Inge

"Cats come and go without ever leaving." ~ Martha Curtis

"The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away." ~ E. W. Howe

"Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?" ~ Fernand Mery

"A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude." ~ Jules Champfleury

"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

"All cats are possessed of a proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to treat him as an inferior being." ~ Michael Joseph

"There is no such thing as 'just a cat'." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin." ~ Unknown

"There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage." ~ Carl Van Vechten

"Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven." ~ Lenny Rubenstein

"Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"Every cat is special in its own way." ~ Sara Jane Clark

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." ~ Mark Twain

"If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -- sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved." ~ Pierre Loti

"A cat is nobody's fool." ~ Heywood Brown

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...it's also the reason they hate birds." ~ K.C. Buffington

"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." ~ Desmond Morris

"My cat speaks sign language with her tail." ~ Robert A. Stern

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." ~ Missy Dizick

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as Gods, they have not forgotten this." ~ Unknown

"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?" ~ Mark Twain

"When I raise a cat from kittenhood, it learns to read me so well that it can con me and predict what I'm going to do. A young adult cat doesn't know what to expect from me and I don't know what to expect from it, so we immediately have each other's attention." ~ Karl Lewis Miller

"Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place." ~ Lynn Hollyn

"Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another." ~ Irving Townsend

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there." ~ Agnes Repplier

"I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time." ~ Colette

"A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it." ~ Jerome K. Jerome

"The whir of a can opener or the bark of an unfamiliar dog...will send even the most deeply dozing cat bounding into the kitchen or under the bed." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time." ~ Jules Champfleury

"If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich." ~ Unknown

"Cats are smart. You know it and I know it." ~ Debbie Mertens

"Many cats simply pounce to their own drummers." ~ Karen Duprey

"Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else." ~ Lawrence N. Johnson

"Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock." ~ Louise A. Belcher

"Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length." ~ Frank Perkins

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"When Mother Nature saw fit to remove the tail of the Manx, she left, in place of the tail, more cat." ~ Mary E. Stewart

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be." ~ Elizabeth Peters

"Cats look beyond appearances--beyond species entirely, it seems--to peer into the heart." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone - this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls 'My cat.'" ~ Margaret Benson

"The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity." ~ Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

"A cat doesn't 'roll' well with a change of someone else's making." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"One cat just leads to another." ~ Ernest Hemingway

"A cat's behavior is a direct reflection of his feelings." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion." ~ F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

"Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf." ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

"My husband said it was him or the cat...I miss him sometimes." ~ Unknown

"I cannot deny that a cat lover and his cat have a master/slave relationship. The cat is the master." ~ Arthur R. Kassin

"Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions." ~ Cleveland Amory

"To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality." ~ Lilian Jackson Braun

"In my next life, I'd like to come back as a cat." ~ Patti J. Moran

"A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it." ~ Frank Perkins

"It isn't always easy being a father to a cat." ~ B. L. Diamond

"A cat with kittens nearly always decides sooner or later to move them." ~ Sidney Denham

"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 the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro." ~ Dr. Bruce Fogle

"The purr from cat to man says, 'You bring me happiness; I am at peace with you.'" ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me." ~ T.S. Eliot

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are nice." ~ Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

"The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way." ~ Mark Twain

"It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it." ~ Susan Howatch

"The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind." ~ H.G. Wells

"Some people own cats and go on to lead normal lives." ~ Unknown

"The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by." ~ Unknown

"You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning." ~ Arnold Hano

"Who needs television when you have cats?" ~ Lori Spigelmyer

"More than likely it was the cat who first coined and put into practice the sage advice: 'If you would have a thing done well, you must do it yourself.'" ~ Lawrence N. Johnson

"Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed?" ~ Winifred Carriere

"Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private." ~ Leonard Michaels

"He has become a much better cat than I have a person. With his gentle urgings, he made me realize that life doesn't end just because one has a few obstacles to overcome." ~ Mary F. Graf

"In reality, cats are probably better off remaining indoors and sending out their humans to deal with the outside world." ~ Dr. Phyllis Sherman Raschke

"The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience." ~ Susan Easterly

"I would gladly change places with any of my cats." ~ George Ney

"It's really the cat's house--we just pay the mortgage." ~ Unknown

"Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace." ~ Robert Sterns

"Most cats are not shy about letting their people know what they want." ~ Karen Duprey

"A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat." ~ Linda W. Lewis

"If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first." ~ Arthur Weigall

"Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts." ~ George Freedley

"Cats are creatures that express a multitude of moods and attitudes." ~ Karen Brademeyer

"The cat does not negotiate with the mouse." ~ Robert K. Massie

"Cats often devise their own sets of rules that they think we should live by, and they may be quick to chastise us if we fail to adhere to these rules!" ~ Margaret Reister, D.V.M.

"The constant challenge to decipher feline behavior is perhaps one of the most fascinating qualities of owning a cat." ~ Carole Wilbourn

"At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their own idea." ~ Lilian Jackson Braun

"No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr." ~ Irving Townsend

"One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach." ~ Ian Dunbar, Ph.D.

"A cat...would check to see if you brought anything to eat, and if not, would turn and walk away, tail held high." ~ Mike Deupree

"If a homeless cat could talk, it would probably say, 'Give me shelter, food, companionship and love, and I will be yours for life!" ~ Susan Easterly

"The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness." ~ Patricia Dale-Green

"The majority of people who still have back doors don't let their cats go through them." ~ Charlene Beane

"A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm." ~ Charles Horton Cooley

"Each one of our cats is a distinct, four-footed little person with an individual personality." ~ Ira B. Rubin

"Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes. Some day there might actually be something there." ~ Anonymous

"The cat is above all things, a dramatist." ~ Margaret Benson

"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself." ~ Unknown

"A cat will assume the shape of its container." ~ Unknown

"A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to." ~ Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.

"Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner..." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"In performing a variety of intellectually demanding tasks, cats usually emerge as clear winners (over dogs)." ~ Dr. David Greene

"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." ~ The Washington Post Magazine

"No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife." ~ Aldous Huxley

"If your cat favors the left paw, chances are good that it possesses psychic ability to some extent." ~ Dr. David Greene

"Cats may, indeed, be the thinking man's pet--because living with cats certainly keeps you on your toes!" ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"Don't let anyone tell you loving a cat is silly. Love, in any form, is a precious commodity." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"I think I'll come back as a cat." ~ George Ney

"When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky." ~ Mike Deupree

"Surely the cat, when it assumes the meat loaf position and gazes meditatively through slitted eyes, is pondering thoughts of utter profundity..." ~ Mij Colson Barnum

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night." ~ Maria Corelli

"How nice it is to think that feline dreams, like our own, are painted with creative brush strokes from time to time. Perhaps my cats and I even share the same dream: a world where all kittens are wanted and loved, and where every cat has a safe, warm place to sleep...and to dream." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"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

"No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me." - Unknown

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God." - Jeff Valdez

"Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?" - Jeff Valdez

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham

"The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence." - Edward Paley

"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one." - Thomas Fuller

"Some cats are blind and stone deaf but ain't no cat wuz ever dumb." - Anthony Henderson Euwer

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

"God made the cat in order to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger." - Unknown

Dogs have owners, cats have staff." - Unknown

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them." - Jim Davis

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen,
and see the cat smiling into her fur as she
delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue.
"Cat, I would lend you this book to study
but it appears you have already read it."
She looks up and gives me her full gaze.
"Don't be ridiculous" she purrs, "I wrote it." - From "Miao" by Dilys Laing

When God made the world, He chose to put animals in it, and decided to give each whatever it wanted. All the animals formed a long line before His throne, and the cat quietly went to the end of the line. To the elephant and the bear He gave strength, to the rabbit and the deer, swiftness; to the owl, the ability to see at night, to the birds and the butterflies, great beauty; to the fox, cunning; to the monkey, intelligence; to the dog, loyalty; to the lion, courage; to the otter, playfulness. And all these were things the animals begged of God. At last he came to the end of the line, and there sat the little cat, waiting patiently. "What will YOU have?" God asked the cat.

The cat shrugged modestly. "Oh, whatever scraps you have left over. I don't mind."

"But I'm God. I have everything left over."

"Then I'll have a little of everything, please."

And God gave a great shout of laughter at the cleverness of this small animal, and gave the cat everything she asked for, adding grace and elegance and, only for her, a gentle purr that would always attract humans and assure her a warm and comfortable home.

But he took away her false modesty.

Lenore Fleischer - The Cat's Pajamas

"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV

"Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression" - Beverly Nichols

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy." ~ Carl Van Vechten

"I don't mind a cat, in its place. But its place is not in the middle of my back at 4 a.m." ~ Maynard Good Stoddard

"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand." ~ Leonore Fleisher

"Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels." ~ Louis A. Camuti, D.V.M.

"Chances are that a man who can nuzzle a kitten is also open and caring in other facets of his life." ~ Barbara L. Diamond

"The cat lets Man support her. But unlike the dog, she is no handlicker. Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun." ~ Vance Packard

"A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys." ~ Barbara Holland

"The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar." ~ Robertson Davies

"If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here'." ~ Roy Blount,Jr.

"Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. 'Mnrhnh' means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship...and the absence of dogs." ~ Val Schaffner

"Who hath a better friend than a cat?" ~ William Hardwin

"Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?" ~ Elizabeth Hamilton

"Every dog has his day -- but the nights are reserved for the cats." ~ Unknown

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. - Agnes Repplier

Four little persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extednded a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts. - George Frredley

Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively. - Roni Schotter

His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having. - Michael Joseph

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banich these alert , gentle, and disciminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. - Agnes Repplier

My little grandson is a darling, but he can never take the place of my cats. - Anonymous Grandmother

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness. - Aelian

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male. - Aristotle

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort. - Leigh Hunt

All cats love a cushioned couch. - Theocritus

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. - P G Wodehouse

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity. - T S Eliot

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student. - Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird! - Pliny the Elder

I love cats. I even think we have one at home. - Edward L Burlingame

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish. - St Brendan

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes. - W B Yeats

Cats Are Not impure; they keep watch about us. - The Prophet Mohammed

I was only a small child when the seeds of cat enchantment were sown within me. - May Eustace

A common cat is four legal pence in value...

A Pound is the worth of a pet animal of the king. - Hywel Dda

There are cats and cats. - Denis Diderot

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. - Italo Calvino

Who hath a better friend than a cat?
William Hardwin

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.
Anonymous

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
Rosanne Amberson

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
Vakaoka Genrin

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.
F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing abuot like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart.
Alan Devoe

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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