Cats love one so much--more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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

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

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Carl Van Vechten

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.
Aesop

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

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

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Jeff Valdez

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

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
Ernest Menaul

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

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.
Lenore Fleischer

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction--and a cat. The last ingredient is usually the hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown

The cat pretends to sleep, the better to see.
Francois-Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
Edward Topsell

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
Sir Compton Mackenzie

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Carl Van Vechten

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond

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

Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
Charlotte Gray

Cats are love on four legs.
Richard Torregrossa

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

I suspect that many an ailurophobe (a person who fears or hates cats) hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is--more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not.
Winifred Carriere

If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time...
Jules Champfleury

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