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Allen and Ivy Dodd:
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.

Mary Abigail Dodge:
What's virtue in a man can't be vice in a cat.

Leo Dworken:
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.

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

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

Lee Entrekin:
Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.

Evan Esar:
The cat: an animal that' so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

Anthony Henderson Euwer:
Some cats is blind,
And stone-deaf some,
But ain't no cat
Wuz ever dumb.

W. C. Fields:
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Lenore Fleischer:
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed - she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Dr. Bruce Fogle:
While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

Fran�ois Fossier:
Cats are forever.

Michael W. Fox, DVM:
They purr to signal a relaxed mood, And their purring may also help relax them and those around them who feel and hear their purring - like getting a nice massage in sound.

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

Mavis Gallant:
"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."

Paul Gallico:
I think of a woman as something like myself.
[translating from cat language]
All you have to remember is Rule 1: When in doubt - wash.
Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to skin - or skin to fur.

Georgina Strickland Gates:
Her function is to sit and be admired
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Theophile Gautier:
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
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.
Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of this gaze startles you. Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
God has created the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Delphine Gay:
The catlike man is one upon whom no tricks can be played with success.

W. L. George:
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

Alberto Giacometti:
It depends on what is in my house. If there was a cat, and my works, I would save the cat. A cat's life is more important than art.
[when asked which of his sculptures he would rescue from a fire]

Rumer Godden:
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written...She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

James Gorman:
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.
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.

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

Paul Gray:
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Patricia Dale Green:
Cats have always been associated with the Moon. Like the Moon, they come to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with their eyes beaming out through the darkness.

Dan Greenberg:
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

Gilbert Gude:
Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats. Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our eyes.

Eric Gurney:
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.

Bonni Elizabeth Hall (and Missycat):
When you come upon your cat, deep in meditation, staring thoughtfully at something that you can't see, just remember that your cat is, in fact, running the universe.

Elizabeth Hamilton:
Which is the more beautiful, feline movement or feline stillness?

Terri L. Haney:
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.
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?

Vicki Hearne:
Cats do not declare their love much; they enact it, by their myriad invocations of our pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein:
How we behave towards cats here below determines out status in heaven.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

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

Tay Hohoff:
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Barbara Holland:
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

Lynn Hollyn:
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.

Geoffrey Household:
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.

Mildred R. Howland:
In his castle
He is King
And I his vassal.

Aldous Huxley:
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

J. K. Huysmans:
In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.

Lesley Anne Ivory:
Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated...Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.

David James:
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.

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

Michael Joseph:
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?

Garrison Keilor:
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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

Rob Kopack:
If cats could talk, they would lie to you.

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

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

Dilys Laing:
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.

William S. Landor:
Cats, like men, are flatterers.

Andrew Lang:
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the contemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Doug Larson:
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Jay Leno:
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

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

Doris Lessing:
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Paul Leyhausen:
Friendship between cats can exist, but more or less in the same way that it can exist for a not very sociable man who spends his time in provoking others, and who, when asked why he does not have any friends, replies: "I would like to have them? But they are so ignoble!"
If a cat is creeping up on prey and realizes that another cat is watching, it will straighten up and act disinterested.

Abraham Lincoln:
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat is not the better for it.

Pierre Loti:
Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

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