"If there is just one beam of sunshine coming into a room you can be sure that the cat is lazing in its heat.
- Stuart and Linda MacFarlane
"Cats hate a closed door...regardless of which side they're one."
- Lilian Jackson Braun
"Evolution has shaped the cat into a creature that can live comfortably in our homes while retaining much of its wild charm."
"Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously."
- Dr Louis J. Camuti
"I love cats because I love my home and little by little they become its visible soul."
- Jean Cocteau
"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat."
- Tay Hohoff
"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
"One cat just leads to another."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Every life should have nine cats."
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
- Margaret Mead
"Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement and love without penalties."
- W. L. George
"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
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
"To bathe a cat requires brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction... and a cat. The last ingredient is the hardest to come by."
- Stephen Baker
"If it's not tied down, it's a cat toy."
"Garfield's Law: Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken... then they awaken them ten minutes sooner."
- Jim Davis
"The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away."
- E.W. Howe
"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes."
- T.S. Eliot
"If you want the best seat in the house, move the cat."
"It's the cat's house. We just pay the mortgage!"
"For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit."
- Christopher Smart
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer"
- Bruce Graham.
"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."
- Pam Brown
"Given a houseful of carpets, shelves, cushions, chairs, window sills, any cat will choose to sleep on the document you are using."
- Dominic Courcel
"A hungry cat outperforms the loudest alarm clock."
- Li Ming Jin
"Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge."
"Every cat in the area will come round to try out your new cat flap. Your own cat will continue to climb onto the window ledge and demand that you get out of bed to let it in."- Brian King
"The cat cannot stand a closed door. His great curiosity demands that he know what is behind each door and over each horizon."
"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."
- Susanne Millen
"I think my favorite thing in the house has to be the cat...mainly because she's just like a big piece of noisy Velcro when you toss her at the sofa."
"Actually, cats are quite good at domesticating people."
"At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their own idea."
"Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner."
"Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf."
- Roy Blount, Jr
"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."
- Pam Brown
"In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination."
"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
- Pam Brown
"Question: What about the way cats claw the upholstery? Answer: Learn to like fringe!"
"The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you."
"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 color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls."
- Eric Gurney
"Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'"
- Rudyard Kipling
"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. "
- Allen and Ivy Dodd
"Nothing makes a house cosier than cats."
- Gladys Taber
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
- Margaret Mead
"When moving to a new home, always put the cat through the window instead of the door, so that it will not leave. "
- U.S. Superstition
"Cats are like potato chips. You can never have just one."
"If you can remember how many cats you have, you don't have enough."
"A home without a cat is only a house."
"There's always room for another cat."
"Climb your way to the top - That's why the drapes are there."
