"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."  -Abraham Lincoln

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."  -Unknown

"People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." -Faith Resnick

"I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little, they become its visible soul."  -Jean Couteau

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

"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do."  -Bill Adler

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

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

"A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment."  -Jules-Henri Poincaré

"A cat pent up becomes a lion."  -Italian proverb

"What could be more graceful than the leap of a cat?"  -Michael Joseph

"A cat has emotional honesty: Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but the cat does not."
-Ernest Hemingway

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

"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."  -English proverb

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."  -Leonardo da Vinci

"God has made the cat in order to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger."  -Fernand Mery

"If a dog jumps onto your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer."  -Alfred North Whitehead

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

"Cats are intended to teach us that n4r fvot everything in nature has a function."  -Garrison Keillor

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

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old."  -Carl Van Vechten

"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs."  -Desmond Morris

"But it is above all for their beauty and grace, soft as velvet, taut as steel, that we admire these miniature lions and tigers."  -Mona Gooden

"A kitten is more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with."  -Lady Sydney Morgan

"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

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

"A man who doesn't love cats will never have a pretty woman."  -Dutch saying

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."  -George Will

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays.  She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it."  -Henry David Thoreau

"A cat uses its nine lives 'three in playing, three is straying, three in staying.'"  -American Adage

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

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

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter with confinements, and love without penalties."  -W.L. George

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

"Cats have a contempt of speech.  Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?"  -Lillian Jackson Braun

"One cat just leads to another."  -Ernest Hemingway

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds."  -Jean Burden