"God made the cat in order to give man the pleasure of petting the tiger." ~ Anonymous
"It's easy to see why the rabble dislikes cats. A cat is beautiful, it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, and voluptous pleasures." ~ Charles Baudelaire
"To err is human. To purr feline." ~ Robert Byrne
"You see. a dog growls when it is angry and wags its tail when it is pleased. Now, I trowl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I am angry." ~ Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll
"If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time." ~ Jules Champfleury
"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten." ~ Jules Champfleury
"The thing about cats as you might find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind." ~ John Ciardi
"At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs." ~ Elizabeth J. Coatworth
"There are no ordinary cats." ~ Colette
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." ~ Colette
"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense." ~ Erasmus Darwin
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, loveable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons." ~ Robertson Davies
"You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat." ~ Doris Day
"People don't choose or own cats. Cats choose the people they want to own." ~ Warren Eckstein
"Silent guardians of my city of books." ~ Anatole France
"A cat in gloves catches no mice." ~ Ben Franklin
"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens." ~ Heinlin
"The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans." ~ Ernest Hemingway
" I cannot imagine a pleasant retired life of peace and meditation without a cat in the house." ~ Paul Von Hindenberg
"God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger." ~ Victor Hugo
"If you want to write, keep cats." ~ Aldous Huxley
"The surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to treat him as an inferior being." ~ Michael Joseph
"He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself." ~ Rudyard Kipling
"Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give." ~ Compton Mackenzie
"The Happiest houses are those in which kitten-rearing is held over for a permanent attraction." ~ James Mason
"The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat." ~ Agnes Repplier
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
"His toungue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper." ~ Hippolyte Taine
"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten... She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread upon it." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"What sort of philosophers are we who know nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?" ~ Henry David Thoreau
"A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be the perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?" ~ Mark Twain
"There is indeed no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage." ~ Carl van Vechten
"Like a gracefull vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow." ~ George Will
