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

"The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. --Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon"

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

"He has become a much better cat than I have a person. With his gentle urgings, he made me realize that life doesn't end just because one has a few obstacles to overcome. --Mary F. Graf"

"One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. --Barbara Webster"

"When anyone mistreats it, the cat wants nothing more to do with that person and will remember him or her for a long time. It doesn't believe in the doctrine of turning the other cheek and won't pretend that it does. --Lawrence N. Johnson"

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

"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"

"Is it yet another survival of jungle instinct, this hiding away from prying eyes at important times? Or merely a gesture of independence, a challenge to man and his stupid ways? --Michael Joseph"

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. --Missy Dizick"

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

"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"

"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"

"Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. --Stephen Baker"

"The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. --Lynn M. Osband"

"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"

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

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

"It's always blackest just before you step on the cat. --Unknown"

"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"

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

"The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.--Lawrence N. Johnson"

"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"

"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"

"A cat who has taken umbrage is a terrible sight to see. --Rosemary Nisbet"

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

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

"Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers - they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama, the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo. --James Gorman"

"More than likely it was the cat who first coined and put into practice the sage advice: 'If you would have a thing done well, you must do it yourself ' --Lawrence N. Johnson"

"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"

"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"

"Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission .. the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. --Saki"

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