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- "You can't help that. We're all mad here." - The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
- "No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln
- "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
- "With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat
- "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
- Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. - John Dobbin
- Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats! - Michelle Gardner
- Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner. - Gary Smith
- Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say. - Matt Groening, 1993
- God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
- I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. - Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat
- The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... - T.S. Eliot
- The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. - Michael McGarel
- We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. - Megan Coughlin
- When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne
- You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same. - Jack Wright (of Kingston, Ontario, the Guinness Book record holder for the owner of the most cats at one time [689])
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
- "After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."- Charlotte Gray
- "A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."- George Mikes
- "You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."- George Mikes
- "You own a dog but you feed a cat."- Jenny de Vries
- Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden
- The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. - Lynn M. Osband
- Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. - James Mason
- Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. - Hank Ketchum
- "Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick
- "One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."- Helen Thomson
- "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
- "A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."- Sarah Thompson
- "Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."- Paul Gray
- "One must love a cat on its own terms."- Paul Gray
- "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly
- "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
- "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
- 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 a dog jumps into 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. - A. N. Whitehead
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch
- I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
- 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? - Fernand Mery
- When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? - Montaigne
- There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. - Dan Greenberg
- 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. - Leo Dworken
- Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. - Roger Caras
- Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. - George F. Will
- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor
- By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. - Barbara Holland
- A meow massages the heart. - Stuart McMillan
- 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. - James Gorman
- If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. - Martin Buxbaum
- Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. - Winifred Carriere
- 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
- There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates
- The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. - P. G. Wodehouse
- Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. - Stephen Baker
- Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden
- The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. - Lynn M. Osband
- Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect. - James Mason
- Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. - Hank Ketchum
- Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - Missy Dizick
- As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley
- How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein
- Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - W. L. George
- As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. - Cleveland Amory
- Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier
- Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. - Stephen Baker
- A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo da Vinci
- There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
- There are no ordinary cats. - Colette
- A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. - William Lyon Phelp
- In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. - Warren Eckstein
- There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff
- One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. - Barbara Webster
- The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard
- Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. - Stephen Baker
- We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. - St. George Mivart
- Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. - Louis F. Camuti, DVM
- The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. -George F. Will
- By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer. - Colette
- Intelligence in the cat is underrated. - Louis Wain
- Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. -Jim Davis
- "Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun." - Lloyd Alexander
- "There is no cat 'language'. Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one." -Barbara Holland
- "Time spent with cats is never wasted." - May Sarton
- "Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."- Pam Brown
- "Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it."- Arthur Bridges
- "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
- "If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company."- Lloyd Alexander
- "Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."- Paul Gray
- "Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'" - Rudyard Kipling, from the "Just-So Stories"
- To err is human, to purr is feline. - Robert Byrne
- If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. - Anonymous
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci
- The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.- Jules Reynard
- If cats could talk, they wouldn't.- Nan Porter
- Every life should have nine cats. - Anonymous
- Dogs eat. Cats dine. - Ann Taylor
- ...You are my cat and I am your human. - Hilaire Belloc
- I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine
- A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.- Bill Adler
- Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?- Robert Stearns
- A cat can purr its way out of anything.- Donna McCrohan
- My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.- Colette
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