"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"

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

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. --Mahatma Gandhi"

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

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. We humans are indeed fortunate if we happen to be chosen to be owned by a cat. --Unknown"

"Cats are like music. It's foolish to try to explain their worth to those who don't appreciate them. --Anonymous"

"Life is hard. Soften yours with a cat. --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 the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.--Iranian Proverb"

"How we behave towards cats here below determines our status in heaven. --Robert Heinlein"

"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"

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

"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 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"

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

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. --Sri Aurobindo"

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. --Francois Truffaut"

"Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use. --Mark Twain"

"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. --E. B. White"

"Humans: No fur, no paws, no tail. They run away from mice. They never get enough sleep. How can you help but love such an absurd animal? --An anonymous cat on Homo Sapiens"

"A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. --Lord Chesterfield"

"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. --William J. Clinton"

"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"

"The cat laps moonbeams in the bowl of water, thinking them to be milk.--Hindu Proverb"

"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. --Jeff Foxworthy"

"Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it. --Camille Paglia"

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

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

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

"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"

"No Heaven will ever Heaven be, Unless my cats are there to welcome me. --Anonymous "

"Dynasties of cats, as numerous as the dynasties of the Pharaohs, succeed each other under my roof. The memory of the cats we have lost fades like the memory of men. --Theophile Gautier"

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

"It depends on what is in my house. If there was a cat, and my works, I would save the cat. A cat's life is more important than art. --Alberto Giacometti [when asked which of his sculptures he would rescue from a fire]"

"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats. --Anonymous"

"For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written...She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing. --Rumer Godden"

"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"

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

"Apparently, through scientific research, it has been determined that a cat's affection gland is stimulated by snoring, thus explaining my cat's uncontrollable urge to rub against my face at 2 a.m. --Terri L. Haney"

"They purr to signal a relaxed mood, And their purring may also help relax them and those around them who feel and hear their purring - like getting a nice massage in sound. --Michael W. Fox, DVM"

"We have a friend who hates cats. Every time he comes to the house the cat sits on his knee. --Unknown"

"The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.--William Shakespeare"

"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"

"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"

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. --Dereke Rita"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. --Marjorie Holmes"

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

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

"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"

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

"There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic. --Monica Edwards"

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

"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"

"Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. --Alan Ayckbourn"

"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 got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic. --Bumpersticker"

"It is better to feed one cat than many mice.--Norwegian Proverb"

"The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat. --Charles J. Brady"

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

"If you take even one of a cat's nine lives, it will haunt you forever. --Folklore"

"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 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"

"It is better to cut off the sleeve of your best robe than to disturb a sleeping cat. --The Prophet"

"Don't use cats - they'll screw up your data. --Anonymous science professor to student"

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

"Dogs are eternally grateful that humans exist, Cats, however, are simply mildly appreciative! --Carl Brizzi"

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

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

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days. --Albert Einstein"

"If you can remember how many cats you have, you don't have enough. --Anonymous Cat Lover"

"Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. --Maurice Burton

"I suspect that many an ailurophobe (a person who fears or hates cats) hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is--more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not. --Winifred Carriere"

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

"A cat refuses to be the object of sentimentality--if she doesn't want to be cuddled, that's it. --Samantha Armstrong"

"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. --Mahatma Gandhi"

"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"

"Beware of people who dislike cats.--Irish Proverb"

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

"A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk. --Unknown"

"An old cat will not learn dancing.--Moroccan Proverb"

"Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats. Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our eyes. --Gilbert Gude"

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

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

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

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. --Unknown"

"If to her share some feline errors fall, Look in her face, and you'll forgive them all. --Unknown"

"It is the nature of a cat that it rather avoids confrontation than starts a fight against overwhelming odds... Who would venture to call a cat a weak animal. --Christer Kihlman"

"The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. --Sidonie Gabrielle Colette"

"If human, cats might play solitaire, but they would never sit around with the gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. --From Time Magazine, Dec.7, 1981"

"We tie bright ribbons around their necks, and occasionally little tinkling bells, and we affect to think that they are as sweet and vapid as the coy name 'kitty' by which we call them would imply. It is a curious illusion. For, purring beside our fireplaces and pattering along our back fences, we have got a wild beast as uncowered and uncorrupted as any under heaven. --Alan Devoe"

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

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