20. 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
21. Cats come and go without ever leaving.
~Martha Curtis
22. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
~Joseph Wood Krutch
23. You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
~Proverb
24. The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
25. The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
~Italo Calvino
26. Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
~Mary Bly
27. My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
~Robert A. Stern
28. Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
~Missy Dizick
29. In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~Terry Pratchett
30. Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~Robertson Davies
31.The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
~Saki
32.Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
~Garrison Keillor
33. Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
~Roy Blount, Jr.
34. Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
~George F. Will
35. You own a dog but you feed a cat.
~Jenny de Vries
36. 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
37. Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don't know he's there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.
~Astrid Alauda
38. A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
~Arthur Bridges
39. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~Henry David Thoreau
40. There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
~Author Unknown
41. Kittens can happen to anyone.
~Paul Gallico
42.It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
~Agnes Repplier
43.No heaven will not ever Heaven be Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
~Author Unknown
44. 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.
~Colette
45. A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
~Joseph Epstein
46. It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
~Eleanor Farjeon
47. Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. ~Jim Davis
48. 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
49. People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.
~Deborah A. Edwards
50. Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
~Irving Townsend
51. The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
~E.W. Howe
52. Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
~Proverb
53. To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
~Stephen Baker
54. Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
~James Gorman
55. Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.
~P.G. Wodehouse
56. Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.
~Lillian Johnson
57. Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~May Sarton
57. A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
~Indian Proverb
59. People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
~Charlotte Gray
60. Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.
~Louise A. Belcher
61. Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
~Irish Saying
62. Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
~Author Unknown
63. One must love a cat on its own terms.
~Paul Gray
64. The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat.
~Michael McGarel
65. A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
~Agnes Repplier
66. Dogs eat. Cats dine.
~Ann Taylor
67. Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
~Stephen Baker
68. No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
~Abraham Lincoln
69. The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
~French Proverb
70. 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
71. Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
~Mark Twain
72. Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.
~Lillian Jackson Braun
73. Who hath a better friend than a cat?
~William Hardwin
74. Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
~Compton MacKenzie
75. A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
~Hazel Nicholson
76. Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
~Andre Norton
77. When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.
~Mike Deupree
78. He liked companionship, but he wouldn't be petted, or fussed over, or sit in anyone's lap a moment; he always extricated himself from such familiarity with dignity and with no show of temper. If there was any petting to be done, however, he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented. ~Charles Dudley Warner
79. Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
~John Weitz
80. In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
~Rosanne Amberson
81. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
~Colette
82. The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
~William S. Burroughs
83. One cat just leads to another.
~Ernest Hemingway
84. Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.
~Helen M. Winslow
85. Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.
~Stephen Baker
86. A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
~Proverb
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