"Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it."
- Italian superstition
"Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems."
- Helen M. Winslow
"A person whose life is graced by cats comes highly recommended."
- S J Gum
"One cat leads to another"
- Ernest Hemmingway.
"To err is human, to purr feline."
- Robert Byrne
"You don't train cats. They train you."
- Allen and Ivy Dodd
"The more people I meet, the more I like my cat."
"Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes. Some day there might actually be something there."
"If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him."
"I cannot exist without a cat, life would not be worth living without a cat. "
- peggy bacon
"Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to skin - or skin to fur."
"A loving cat can mend a wounded heart."
"My cat knows the song in my heart and purrs it to me when my memory fails."
"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself."
"Some people own cats and go on to lead normal lives."
"Civilization is defined by the presence of cats."
"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him."
- Drew Barrymore
"Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it."
"Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?"
"There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone."
"Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility."
"I suspect that many an ailurophobe hates cats only because he feels they are better than he is - more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not."
"Getting a cat is a greater commitment than getting married."
"There is one way in which cats differ from all other animals and that is in the effect they have on human beings."
- Patricia Dale-Green
"Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled and it makes a sound when you jump on it."
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
- Robertson Davies
"There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat"
"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed - she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
- Lenore Fleischer
"People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around."
- Susan Easterly
"The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience."
- Susan Easterly
"People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote."
"Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats. Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our eyes."
- Gilbert Guide
"If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat."
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
- Doug Larson
"A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat."
- Linda W. Lewis
"Pet owners live longer."
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice."
- Terry Pratchett
