A Cat's Personality

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds."

"When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky."

"Cats look beyond appearances--beyond species entirely, it seems--to peer into the heart."

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

"Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor."
- Walter Chandoha

"There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience."

"I believe that cats are so smart, they've convinced people that they can't be trained."

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

"A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat"

"The cat: an animal that' so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time."
- Evan Esar

"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."
- W. C. Fields

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is."

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."
- Charlotte Gray

"Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf."

"Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse"

"There is no such thing as 'just a cat'."

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
- James Herriot

"There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!"
- Barbara Holland

"His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having."

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
- Garrison Keilor

"Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything."
- Hank Ketchum

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."
- Hazel Nicholson

"What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know." "They don't care if you like them. They haven't the slightest notion of gratitude, and they never pretend. They take what you have to offer, and away they go. "
- Mavis Gallant

"There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds."
- Eve Babitz

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
- George F. Will

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

"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

"Cats are love on four legs."
- Richard Torregrossa

"No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who have never pursued and successfully caught his tail."
- Rosalind Welcher

"The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. "
- P. G. Wodehouse

"The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority."
- P.G.Wodehouse

"The cat has nine lives - three for playing, three for straying, and three for staying."
- English Proverb

"If to her share some feline errors fall, Look in her face, and you'll forgive them all. "
"A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk."

"Cats know not how to pardon. "
- Jean de la Fontaine

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