"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
- Mark Twain Notebook, 1894
"For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat."
"There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."
- Dan Greenberg
"Beware of people who dislike cats."
- Irish Proverb
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats."
- Colonial American Proverb
"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
"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
- Jim Davis
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats."
- Albert Schweitzer
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
- Hippolyte Taine
"A meow massages the heart."
- Stuart McMillan
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
" There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life."
- Faith Resnick
"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
"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 are no ordinary cats."
- Colette
"If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed. "
- Winifred Carriere
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
- Dave Platt
"I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic."
"My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes."
"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man."
- Paul Gray
"What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat."
- Gail Hamilton
"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
- Eleanor H. Porter
"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."
- Albert Schweitzer
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favourite cat, they, too, would purr."
- Martin Buxbaum
"I gave my cat a bath the other day ... they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that..."
- Steve Martin
"The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering."
"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings."
- William Inge
"Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it."
- Winifred Carriere
"Cats are designated friends."
