• "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

• "There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds." -- Eve Babitz

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

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

• "One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers." -- Gwendolyn Brooks

• "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 Seward Burroughs

• "We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats." -- Roger Caras

• "In the night all cats are gray." -- Miguel de Cervantes

• "Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched." -- Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

• "Time spent with cats is never wasted." -- Colette

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

• "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." -- Colonial American proverb

• "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." -- Marie Corelli

• "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons." -- Robertson Davies

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

• "Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain." -- Dutch Proverb

• "In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats." -- English proverb

• "She moved through the garden in glory, because
  She had very long claws at the end of her paws" -- Richard Garnett

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

• "One cat just leads to another." -- Ernest Hemingway

• "The cat has complete emotional honesty -- an attribute not often found in humans." -- Ernest Hemingway

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

• "Cat: a pygmy lion who loathes mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings." -- Oliver Herford

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

• "A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it." -- Italian Superstition

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

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

• "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." -- Sir Compton MacKenzie

• "it s cheerio
  my deario that
  pulls a lady through"
  -- Mehitabel the Cat (Don Marquis)

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

• "Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there." -- Andrew Mercer

• "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

• "When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?" -- Montaigne

• "Cats sleep fat and walk thin." -- Rosalie Moore

• "You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense." -- Jane Pauley

• "Dogs... can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything -- including their own sins." -- Elizabeth Peters

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

• "Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling." -- Helen Powers

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

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

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

• "I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare." -- Joyce Stranger

• "Nothing makes a house cozier than cats." -- Gladys Taber

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

• "Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetes, and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for." -- Bernard Taper

• "Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
  Offer no angles to the wind.
  They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
  Less than themselves." -- A. S. J. Tessimond

• "Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery." -- Lewis Thomas

• "What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?" -- Henry David Thoreau

• "I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? FEED US NOW!" -- Sylvia Townsend

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

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

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

• "CAT (n): 1. Furry keyboard cover 2. Alarm clock" -- Unknown

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

• "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." -- Leonardo da Vinci

• "Intelligence in the cat is underrated." -- Louis Wain

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

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

• "After dark all cats are leopards." -- Zuni Native American Proverb