"There are no ordinary cats." - Colette
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." - Leonardo da Vinci
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one." - Thomas Fuller
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier
"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott
"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 mind." - Cleveland Amory
"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." - Carl Van Vechten
"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves." - Mary Wilkins
"Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." - John Weitz
"A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do." - Bill Adler
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
"Some cats are blind and stone deaf but ain't no cat wuz ever dumb." - Anthony Henderson Euwer
"Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use." - Mark Twain
"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 its title?" - Mark Twain
"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air." - Doris Lessing
"Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated... Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries. - Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory)
"If you want the best seat in the house, you'll have to move the cat." - anonymous, contributed by Gillian Robinson
"The difference between cats and dogs is that dogs come when called and cats take a message and get back to you." - anonymous, contributed by Gillian Robinson
"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.
