"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique. There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience. --Allen and Ivy Dodd"

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

"After extensive research, I have determined that cats do have nine lives. But this has made for some awkward moments on the autopsy table since you can never really tell which life is nine. --David James"

"If you try to take a cat apart, to see how it works, the first thing you'll have on your hands is a non-working cat. -— Douglas Adams"

"Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. --Hank Ketchum"

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. --Joseph Wood Krutch"

"When all candles be out, all cats be gray. --John Heywood"

"When cat people get together they are as single-minded as vegetarians, or kelp and soybean addicts. For they can talk for hours about what their cats will and will not eat. Once you meet a cat lover you will pursue his or her cat's food predilections endlessly. --Gladys Tabor"

"Said a miserly peer at the Abbey, 'I fear I shall look rather shabby, For I've replaced my ermine. Infested with vermin, With the fur of my dear defunct tabby.'--Unknown"

"There was an old bulldog named Caesar, Who went for a cat just to tease her; But she spat and she spit, Till the old bulldog quit. Now when poor Caesar sees her, he flees her. --Unknown"

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

"People who belong to Siamese cats must make up their minds to do a good deal of waiting upon them. --Compton Mackenzie"

"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it. --Unknown"

"All children left unattended will be given a free kitten. --Sign in a veterinarian's office"

"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls. --Eric Gurney"

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

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. --Helen Thomson"

"To escort a cat on a leash is against the nature of the cat. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. --Adlai Stevenson"

"A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.--Mugsy Peabody"

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer. --Bruce Graham"

"Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. 'Mnrhnh' means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship...and the absence of dogs. --Val Schaffner"

"The dog for the man, the cat for the woman.--English Proverb"

"Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power. --William Butler Yeats"

"Never will you get a better psychological subject than a hungry cat. --Dr. Edward Lee Thorndike"

"Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. --Lillian Johnson"

"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. --Pam Brown"

"A cat will wait until you've read your morning paper before tearing it to shreds. --Unknown"

"Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking. --Mike Royko"

"Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy....Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. --P. J. O'Rourke"

"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. --Deng Xiaoping"

"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"

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? --Steven Wright"

"The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. --Ogden Nash"

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. --Charles Baudelaire"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one. --Thomas Fuller"

"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

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

"You know when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, 'Oh, have you got a cat?' Just once I want to say, 'No, it's for company!' --Unknown"

"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. --T. S. Eliot"

"Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation. --Philippe Diolé"

"My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes. --Anonymous' Wife"

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

"One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness. --Edward Dahlberg"

"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"

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

"Never feed your cat anything that doesn't match the carpet. --Anonymous"

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

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

"I'm not much of a cook. My favorite thing to make from scratch is a purr. --Anonymous"

" Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. --Stephen Baker"

"Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. --Stephen Baker"

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

"Cats are better than any vice. They're not fattening, dangerous, or expensive. However, they can be addictive. --Anonymous"

"Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner. --Gary Smith"

"Cats find malicious amusement in doing what they are not wanted to do, and that with an affectation of innocence that materially aggravates their deliberate offence. --Helen Winslow"

"Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out. --Lillian Jackson Braun"

"Every dog has his day -- but the nights are reserved for the cats. --Unknown"

"I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. --Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat"

"Free to a good home - female cat or husband. Husband says either he goes or cat goes. Cat fixed, husband isn't. - Ad in the Flint, Michigan Weekly World News"

"A cat on the doorstep in the morning brings bad luck.--Norwegian Proverb"

"Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length. --Frank Perkins"

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

"Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses. --Edward Topsell"

"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"

"Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. --Eleanor Farjeon"

"Dogs eat. Cats dine. --Ann Taylor"

"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. --Michael McGarel"

"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. --Pam Brown"

"All cats like being the focus of attention. --Peter Gray"

"There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. --Monica Edwards"

"A cat can purr its way out of anything. --Donna McCrohan"

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. --Henry David Thoreau"

"A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch. --Pam Brown"

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. --Groucho Marx"

"Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. --Paul Gallico"

"A cat sleeping with all four paws tucked under means cold weather ahead.--English Superstition"

"Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him. If left to their own devices, felines tend to nap and nibble throughout the day and night, scarcely differentiating between the two. --Lynn Hollyn"

"Cats are forever. --François Fossier"

"You're feline sleepwear. The cat's pajamas. -- Joann Boyd"

"A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry. --Louis Wain"

"A computer and a cat are somewhat alike -- they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share. --John Updike"

"A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate. --Elizabeth Lemarchand "

"Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression. --Beverly Nichols"

"There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one. --Unknown"

"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't need to know that everybody loves him --William Kunstler"

"A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there's not a thing you can do about it. --Frank Perkins"

"Okay, cats will never bring you pictures they've drawn in school, but they may give you a dead mouse. What parent could resist that gift? --Terri L. Haney"

"Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time. --'Advice from Kids'"

"It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it. --Susan Howatch"

"The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. --Edward Paley"

"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do. --Bill Adler"

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. --Dave Platt"

"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience. --Pam Brown"

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff. --Sneaky Pie Brown (author Rita Mae Brown's cat)"

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.- - - Alfred North Whitehead"

"A cat is always at the wrong side of the door --Unknown"

"It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat. --Anonymous"

"We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. -- Megan Coughlin"

"Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives? --Louis J. Camuti"

"Cats have amazingly keen hearing but go conveniently deaf when you call. --Unknown"

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

"Buy a dog a toy, and he'll play with it forever. Buy a cat a present, and it will play with the wrapper for 10 minutes. --Anonymous"

"Never wear anything that panics the cat. --P. J. O'Rourke"

"If a cat washes behind its ears, it will rain.--English Superstition"

"Cats only assume their strangest, most intriguing and most beautiful postures when it is impossible to photograph them. Cat calendars always disappoint for they only show the public range of cat positions. --J. R. Coulson"