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Sharon Lundblad:
A cat is a very special friend who comes into your life. When it comes it brings warmth, companionship, contentment and love. Whether it's long-haired, short-haired, pedigreed or "Heinz" makes no difference.
A cat, though independent, has a way of letting you know that without you life just wouldn't be worthwhile.
If you're lucky enough to own a cat consider yourself one of life's winners because when you have a cat around you'll never be lonely; the sound of its purr will give you comfort, and as you hold it and pet it, stress will slip away.

John D. MacDonald:
If a cat can detect no self-advantage in what it is being told to do, it says the hell with it, and, if pressure is brought to bear, it will grow increasingly surly and irritable to the point where it is hopeless to continue.

Larry Madrid:
If you put down food and the cat eats, it's hungry. If it doesn't, it isn't.

Steve Martin:
I gave my cat a bath the other day. He just sat there. Actually, I think he enjoyed it. It wasn't very fun for me, though. The fur kind of stuck to my tongue.

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

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

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

Rod McKuen:
There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair

Stuart McMillan:
A meow massages the heart.

Patricia McPherson:
I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that.

Ernest Menual:
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
These furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all you emotions into.

Fernand Mery:
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?
God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.

Leonard Michaels:
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

Bette Midler:
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

George Mikes:
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Susanne Millen:
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Harold Monro:
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Lady Sydney Morgan:
The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambole is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

Morris the Cat:
Personally, I don't believe felines are a fad. We're here to stay.

Wright Morris:
Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

Desmond Morris:
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Ogden Nash:
The trouble with a Kitten is that,
Eventually....it becomes a Cat!

John S. Nichols:
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.

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

P. J. O'Rourke:
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.
Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. 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.

Lynn M. Osband:
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

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

William Lyon Phelps:
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

Nan Porter:
If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

Paula Poundstone:
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their faces whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

Agnes Repplier:
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it
gets there.

Jules Reynard:
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Hank Roll:
If cats seem distant and aloof it is because this is not their native planet - they are here just to visit and dominate.

Jean Jacques Rousseau:
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything

Saki (H. H. Munro):
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Agnes A. Sandham:
Now, as you all know, there is nothing a cat dislikes so much as water; just watch your kitty shake her paws daintily when she steps into a puddle, and see how disgusted she is if a drop of water falls on her nose and back.

Albert Schewitzer:
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Sir Walter Scott
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

John Simon:
I have found my love of cats most helpful in understanding women.

Robert Southey:
Ah! Little do you know how swiftly fly
The venomed darts of feline jealousy.
A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.

Robert Stearns:
Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace. Dogs are the peasants, dutifully plodding behind their leaders.
Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?
A human may go for a stroll with a cat; he has to walk a dog. The cat leads the way, running ahead, tail high, making sure you understand the arrangement. If you should happen to get ahead, the cat will never allow you to think it is following you. It will stop and clean some hard-to-reach spot, or investigate a suspicious movement in the grass; you will find yourself waiting a fidgeting like the lackey you are. But this is not annoying to cat lovers, who understand and appreciate a good joke, even when it is on them.

Adlai Stevenson:
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.

Sir Harry Swanson:
You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.

Arthur Symons:
It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

Ann Taylor:
Dogs eat. Cats dine.

Jane Taylor:
I like little Pussy, her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.

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

Mark Twain:
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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