"If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. --Aldous Huxley"

"In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat. --J. K. Huysmans"

"Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. Dogs are the peasants, dutifully plodding behind their leaders. --Robert Stearns"

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

"A cat will sit washing his face within two inches of a dog in the most frantic state of barking rage, if the dog be chained. 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"

"...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton"

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

"Life with a cat is in certain ways a one-sided proposition. Cats are not educable; humans are. Moreover, cats know this. If you are not willing to humor them, you might as well stick to dogs. --Terry Teachout"

"Any great truth can - and eventually will - be expressed as a cliché - a cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. --Solomon Short"

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. --Robert A. Heinlein "

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Some people see the glass as half empty, some as half full. I look for the cat who drank the water. --Unknown"

"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"

"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"

"What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know. They don't care if you like them. They haven't the slightest notion of gratitude, and they never pretend. They take what you have to offer, and away they go." --Mavis Gallant

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

"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"

"Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room.--French Proverb "

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

"The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. --Thelonius Monk"

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

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

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens that what ever you say to them, they always purr. --Lewis Carroll"

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

"A human may go for a stroll with a cat; he has to walk a dog. The cat leads the way, running ahead, tail high, making sure you understand the arrangement. If you should happen to get ahead, the cat will never allow you to think it is following you. It will stop and clean some hard-to-reach spot, or investigate a suspicious movement in the grass; you will find yourself waiting a fidgeting like the lackey you are. But this is not annoying to cat lovers, who understand and appreciate a good joke, even when it is on them. --Robert Stearns"

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

"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"

"For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. --Unknown"

"The cat pretends to sleep, the better to see. --Francois-Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand"

"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"

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

"When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle. --Sarah Orne"

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

"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"

"All you have to remember is Rule 1: When in doubt - wash --Paul Gallico"

"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])"

"I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that. ----Patricia McPherson"

"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"

"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion. --Christopher Smart"

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

"I love in the cat that independent and most ungrateful temper which prevents it from attaching itself to anyone; the indifference with which it passes from the salon to the housetop. --Francois Rene De Chateaubriand"

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