"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice." -- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs." "Gogs?" "Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously." -- Delenn and Sheridan, Babylon 5: A Race Through Dark Places

...The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be 'This is the cat's cat.' - Elmer Davis

A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.  - Jenny De Vries

A cat can purr its way out of anything - Donna McCrohan

A cat is a dilettante in fur. - Theophile Gautier 1811 -1872.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. -Mark Twain Notebook, 1895

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

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. - Jerome K. Jerome

A cat's worst enemy is a closed door. -  Unknown

A home without a cat- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title? - Pudd'nhead Wilson

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

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

A loving cat can mend a wounded heart. -  Anonymous

A meow massages the heart. - Stuart McMillan

All cats are republicans.  They hate change.  Except Siamese, of course.  Siamese are Hobbesian monarchists. - Emilie Glover

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

Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.  - Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a cat. - Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Proverb

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own - John Dingman

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. - John Dingman

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriott

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. - Dan Greenburg

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart. - Dave Barry.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. -  Garrison Keillor

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. - Paul Gray

Cats are magical...the more you pet them the longer you both live. -- Anonymous

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. - Stephen Baker

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

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

Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit. -  Unknown

Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet.<BR>Cats wait for a proper invitation.<BR>-Vicki Brown

Cats come and go without ever leaving. - Martha Curtis

Cats don't like change without their consent. -  Roger A. Caras

Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse. - Heinlein

Cats like doors left open, in case they change their minds. - Rosemary Nisbet

Cats pride themselves on their ability to do nothing. - John R.F. Breen

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

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission. The kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. - Saki

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

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

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

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

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

Dogs eat. Cats dine. - Ann Taylor

Dogs have owners, cats have staff - Unknown

Dogs have owners, cats have staff. - Unknown

Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven. -  Lenny Rubenstein

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. - John Weitz

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog - Eleanor Clark

Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats. -  Unknown

Everything that moves serves to interest and amuse a cat. He is convinced that nature is busying herself with his diversion; he can conceive of no other purpose in the universe. - F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. - Anon

God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger. - Fernand Mery

Hairballs happens. - Unknown

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him fitz-William - Josh Billings

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats.  The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau, French poet and filmmaker

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. - Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher

I'm quite happily enslaved to the cuddly loyalty and high intelligence of cats. After all, they can purr and dogs can't. - Diana Fineran, secretary/founder of the Traditional Cat Association

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. -- Doris Lessing

If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

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

If it's not tied down, it's a cat toy. -  Unknown

If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. - African Proverb

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

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

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

Into every life a little cat hair must fall. - Unknown

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

Kittens can happen to anyone. -  Paul Gallico

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. - George F. Will

manages to find a living in the city. - Carl Van Vechten

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. - Dave Platt

Never feed your cat anything that doesnŐt match the color of your carpet. - Unknown

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

No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me. - Unknown

No heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me. - Unknown

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

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

No outfit is complete without a few cat hairs. - Unknown

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. -- William Conway

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life. - Andrew Lang

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain Notebook, 1894

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

One cat just leads to another. - Ernest Hemingway

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

People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet. -  Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.

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

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

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats - Honore de Blazac

Purranoia.....the fear that your cat is up to something. - Unknown

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. - Monica Edwards

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.   True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. - Missy Dizick

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


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

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still

The cat was created when the lion sneezed. - Arab Myth

The great open spaces where cats are cats. - Marquis

The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. -  Edward Paley

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

The more people I meet, the more I like my cat. - Unknown

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal. - Sir Compton MacKenzie

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 the colour it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls. - Eric Gurney

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you. - Pam Brown

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats. - Anonymous

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

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

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

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. - Dan Greenberg

Those who'll play with cats must expect to get scratched. - Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote de la Mancha

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.  Cats have never forgotten this. - Anonymous

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. - Anonymous

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Colette

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Unknown

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

To err is human, to purr is feline. -  Robert Byrne

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

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. - Jim Davis

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. - St. George Mivart

What fun to be a cat! - Christopher Morley

What greater gift than the love of a cat? -  Charles Dickens

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she to me? - Montaigne,16th century French essayist

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

When you invite a kitten into your home, you bring indoors something slightly wild, often unpredictable and always entertaining. -  Barbara L. Diamond

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

With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats? - Fernand Mery

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

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

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

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. - Jane Pauley

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

Happiness is a cat 
Chase it and it will elude you, it will hide. 
But sit and peacefully do your work, 
live your life and show your love 
and it will silently come to you 
and curl itself upon your feet.