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
Her function is to sit and be admired.
Georgina Strickland Gates
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure,
could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards
the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
Jules Champfleury
If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then,
how could his human remain possessed.
Winifred Carriere
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are
when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than
grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle
and designing, and yet so richly comic.
Monica Edwards
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
Champfleury
Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us
has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how
he likes, and as much as he likes?
Fernand Mery
When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts.
Patricia Curtis
Cats find malicious amusement in doing what they are not wanted to do,
and that with an affectation of innocence that materially aggravates
their deliberate offense.
Helen Winslow
It is 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.
In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that is is often hard
to tell the people and the cats apart.
P. J. O'Rourke
Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're
out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.
Lillian Jackson Braun
Let us be honest; most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness.
I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house
with a saintly expression.
Beverly Nichols
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact
that in Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods. This makes them prone to set
themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose
lot they share.
P. G. Wodehouse
When naming a cat, if one's imagination is totally at a loss, start with a good
encyclopedia. Look up the names of emperors, empresses, kings, and queens. Cats,
particularly male cats, like very strong names which link them to majestic feats.
Auriel Douglas
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Warren Eckstein
The cat could very well be man's best friend, but he would never stoop to admit it.
Doug Larson
Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
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