I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. Robert Heinlein
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
If a dog jumps in 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
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. Mark Twain
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, loveable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver Herford
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it’s always a cat. Ogden Nash
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. Paul Gallico
The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. Doug Larson
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ‘evil’ look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it. Camille Paglia
It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. Deng Xiaoping
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch
Kittens can happen to anyone. Paul Gallico
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. Garrison Keillor