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
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.
That one is the cat.
Mark Twain
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
Edward Paley
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
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
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.
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