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Stephen Baker:
Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.
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.
Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.

- Speaking as a cat in How to Live with a Neurotic Cat
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction ? and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Oswald Barron:
She knows that nine lives are enough.

Drew Barrymore:
If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

Wesley Bates:
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Charles Baudelaire:
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

Eric Temple Bell:
Cats hate water only when it is dumped on them, as who wouldn't? Given the opportunity, they will fish diligently in the neighborhood fish ponds.

Margaret Benson:
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.
A cat must either have beauty and breeding, or it must have a profession.

Ellen Perry Berkeley:
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Ambrose Bierce:
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Rev. W. Bingley:
Cats, by means of their whiskers, seem to possess something like an additional sense: these have, perhaps, some analogy to the antennae of moths and butterflies.

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

Mary Bly:
Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you later.

R. H. Blyth:
I myself think to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Elayne Boosler:
A man who was loved by 300 women singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

Charles J. Brady:
The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat.

Arthur Bridges:
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.

Philip Brown:
It was difficult to feel vexed by a creature that burst into a chorus of purring as soon as I spoke to him.

Dereke Bruce:
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.

Jean Burden:
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

H. Monger Burdock:
A cat sleeping on your bed is a far more pleasant companion than a ninety-pound Labrador with bad breath. Furthermore, cats do not snore or break wind.

Edward Burlingame:
I love cats. I even think we have one at home.

Maurice Burton:
Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant.

Martin Buxbaum:
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Robert Byrne:
To err is human, to purr feline.

Dr. Louis J. Camuti:
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.
Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

Roger A. Caras:
Cats don't like change without their consent.
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.

William H. A. Carr:
Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them.
Few people are mugwumps about the cat.

Winifred Carriere:
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.
I suspect that many an ailurophobe hates cats only because he feels they are better than he is - more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not.

Lewis Carroll:
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Jacob Cats:
If one owns a pretty cat, it's best to avoid the furrier.

Jules Champfleury:
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal. He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

Chateaubriand:
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch.

Chaucer:
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.

Winston Churchill:
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Seymour and Paula Chwast:
Getting a cat is a greater commitment than getting married.

Eleanor Clark:
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Susy Clemens (daughter of author Mark Twain):
Momma loves morals and Papa loves cats.

Jean Cocteau:
I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.

Colette:
There are no ordinary cats.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long period of time.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.

Nelson A. Crawford:
The cat lives his own life; he expects you to live yours.

Will Cuppy:
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Patricia Dale-Green:
There is one way in which cats differ from all other animals and that is in the effect they have on human beings.

Erasmus Darwin:
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

Robertson Davies:
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Leonardo da Vinci:
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

James Davis, DVM:
Cats are just little hair factories.

Jim Davis:
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken...then they awaken them ten minutes earlier.
They say a cat always lands on his feet, but they don't mention the pain. (as Garfield the cat)

Miguel de Cervantes:
In the night all cats are gray.
Those who will play with cats must expect to get scratched.

Bernos de Gasztold:
Wouldn't You like someday
To put a curse on the whole race of dogs?
If so, I should say, Amen.

Jean de la Fontaine:
Cats know not how to pardon.

Michel deMontaigne:
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?

Sidney Denham:
Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore.

Barbara L. Diamond:
Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.

Blaga Dimitrova:
A cat stretches from one end of my childhood to the other.

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

Question: What about the way cats claw the upholstery?
Answer: Learn to like fringe!

Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
--Randy Builder

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not
scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
--Samuel Butler

Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.
--Winston Churchill

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

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
--Mark Twain

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

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

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