''You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.'' - Colonial American Proverb

''Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.'' - Unknown

''I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.'' - Hippolyte Taine

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

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

''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

''When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?'' - Montaigne

''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

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

''No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.'' - Leo Dworken

''Dogs have owners, cats have staff.'' - Unknown

''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 kind.'' - Cleveland Amory

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

''Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.'' - Mark Twain

''Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.'' - Anonymous

''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

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