"Anything on the ground is a cat toy. Anything not there yet, will be. --Unknown"

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

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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. "

"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"

"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"

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.' --Lewis Carroll"

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. --Mark Twain"

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

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

"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"

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. --John Dingman"

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. --Mark Twain"

"The catlike man is one upon whom no tricks can be played with success. --Delphine Gay"

"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. --W. C. Fields"

"When you come upon your cat, deep in meditation, staring thoughtfully at something that you can't see, just remember that your cat is, in fact, running the universe. --Bonni Elizabeth Hall (and Missycat)"

"Owning a cat is like reading a good novel - just when you think you know the main character, she'll surprise you on the very next page. --Unknown"

"Owning a cat is a good forerunner of marriage. You learn that you cannot control another living being, or expect him/her to do everything you want. --Unknown"

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

"If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse. --from 'Advice from Kids'"

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. --Mark Twain"

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. --Judith Merkle Riley"

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

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' -- Samuel Butler"

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

"When naming a cat, if one's imagination is totally at a loss, start with a good encyclopedia. Look up the names of emperors, empresses, kings, and queens. Cats, particularly male cats, like very strong names which link them to majestic feats. --Auriel Douglas"

"The visionary chooses a cat; the man of concrete a dog. Hamlet must have kept a cat. Platonists, or cat lovers, include sailors, painters, poets, and pickpockets. Aristotelians, or dog lovers, include soldiers, football players, and burglars. --Anonymous"

"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. --Mark Twain"

"To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. --Anonymous"

"The cat is the mirror of his human's mind… the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance. --Winifred Carriere"

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

"Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations. --Irving Townsend"

"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"

"One day a cat will opt to join you while you are utterly relaxed in muscle and brain, and with delicate miaow and a velvet paw will show you transcendental meditation by an expert. --V. Martin"

"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"

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

"As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. --Carl Van Vechten"

"I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementally adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their suppertime. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes. --Sylvia Townsend Warner"

"A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom. --Robert Southey"

"A person who manages to understand a cat is qualified to understand most anything else. --Anonymous"

"Avoid dogs whenever you can. Remember... Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral. --Unknown"

"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])"

"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? --Eleanor H. Porter"

"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"

"We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs. -~Brian Carter"

"A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. --Jean Burden"

"Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation. --George Eliot"

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