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

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.
--Lloyd Alexander

In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
--Roseanne Anderson

Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature.
--Paul Annixter

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

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.
--Rev. W. Bingley

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

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.
--Dereke Bruce

"All of the animals, excepting man, know the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
--Samuel Butler

In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.
--Louis J. Camuti, DVM

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.
--Louis J. Camuti, DVM  

The cat is the mirror of the human mind, personality and attitude, just as the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.
--Winifred Carriere

"A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude."
--Champfleury

Time spent with cats is never wasted
--Collette

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

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

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.
--Allen and Ivy Dodd

"A cat has a reputation to protect.  If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side."
--Will Durant

In my house lives a cat who is a curmudgeon and cantankerous, a cat who is charming and convivial, and a cat who is combative and commendable. And yet I have but one cat.
-- Dave Edwards 

Some cats is blind, and stone-deaf some, But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb
--Anthony Henderson Euwer

What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know." "They don't care i 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.
--Mavis Gallant

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.
--Theophile Gautier  

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

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

THE CAT:
He blinks upon the hearth-rug,
And yawns in deep content,
Accepting all the comforts
That Providence has sent.
Louder he purrs, and louder,
In one glad hymn of praise
For all the night's adventures,
For quiet, restful days.
--Alexander Grey

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.
--Eric Gurney

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

Wild beast he created later,
Lions with their paws so furious;
In the image of the lion
Made he kittens small and curious...
--Heinrich Heine, Songs of Creation

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

One cat just leads to another. 
--Ernest Hemingway

"Meow is like 'Aloha'--it can mean anything."
--Hank Ketchum

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

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

Cats, like men, are flatters.
--William S. Landor

The cat could very well be man's best friend, but he would never stoop to admit it.
--Doug Larson

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

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.
--Pierre Loti

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.
--Patricia McPherson  

A CAT'S PRAYER:
Lead me down all the right paths
Keep me from fleas, bees and baths.
Let me in should it storm,
Keep me safe, fed and warm.
Let the sun shine where I lay,
Keep me young so I may play.
And most of all.....
Bless the people I adore,
And guard me from the dog next door.
--Lisa Malone

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

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

Artists like cats, soldiers like dogs.
--Desmond Morris

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

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
--Penny Ward Moser

"The wildcat is the 'real' cat, the soul of the domestic cat, unknowable to human beings, yet he exists inside our household pets, who have long ago seduced us with their seemingly civilized ways."
--Joyce Carol Oates

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. Cats are mean for the fun of it.
--P.J. O'Rourke

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

The cat Bastet sat perched on the rim of the tub, watching me through slitted golden eyes. She was fascinated by baths. I suppose total immersion in water must have seemed to her a peculiar method of cleansing oneself.
--Elizabeth Peters

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

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see the more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.
--Francois Rene

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

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
--Agnes Repplier

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

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.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau

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.
--Saki

The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbor and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.
--Carl Sandburg

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.
--Agnes A. Sandham

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
--Fred Schwab

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

A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.
--Robert Southey

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
--Adlai Stevenson

To escort a cat on a leash is against the nature of the cat.
--Adlai Stevenson

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.
--Robert Stearns

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
--Mark Twain

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

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
--Jules Verne  

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
--Louis Wain

A cat's a cat and that's that.
--American Proverb

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats
--Colonial American Proverb

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

For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
--English Proverb

Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
--Indian Proverb

To please himself only the cat purrs.
--Irish Proverb

It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
--Norwegian Proverb

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
--Unknown

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

Special thanks to my good friend, JennyWren, for helping me compile these!