It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.  ~Eleanor Farjeon

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.  ~Agnes Repplier

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.
~T.S. Eliot

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.  ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.  ~Garrison Keillor

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.  ~Robertson Davies

The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.  ~Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat.  The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.  ~Stephen Baker

One cat just leads to another.  ~Ernest Hemingway

A cat’s got her own opinion of human beings.  She don’t say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.  ~Jerome K. Jerome

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.  ~Carl van VechtenCUL

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.  ~Louis J. Camuti

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.  ~Nan Porter

Cats are notoriously sore losers.  Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.  ~Stephen Baker

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness.  I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.  ~Beverly Nichols

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.  True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.  ~Missy Dizick

Most beds sleep up to six cats.  Ten cats without the owner.  ~Stephen Baker

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have.  Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy.  It’s easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America’s favorite pet.  People like pets to possess the same qualities they do.  Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs.  Cats cannot be made to do anything useful.  Cats are mean for the fun of it.  In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it’s often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.  ~P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.  ~Pierre Loti

If only cats grew into kittens.  ~R. Stern

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

Another cat?  Perhaps.  For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown.  But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires.  Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated.  I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.  ~Irving Townsend

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.  ~Paul Corey

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.  A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.  ~Jules Verne

The smart cat doesn’t let on that he is.  ~H.G. Frommer

Kittens are born with their eyes shut.  They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.  ~Stephen Baker

Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.  ~Author Unknown

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.  ~Barbara Holland

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.  ~Mark Twain

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.  ~Compton MacKenzie

Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.  ~Lillian Jackson Braun

Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don’t know he’s there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.  ~Astrid Alauda

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.  ~E.W. Howe

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.  ~Colette

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.  ~Stephen Baker

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.  ~Author Unknown

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

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.  ~Indian Proverb

Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts? ~Terri Guillemets

The trouble with a kitten is that
Eventually it becomes a cat.
~Ogden Nash

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.  ~Paul Gray

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.  ~Colette

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.  ~Arabian Proverb

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.  ~Lemony Snicket

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.  ~Author Unknown

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.  ~William Shakespeare, Henry IV

People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.  ~Susan Easterly

Cats conspire to keep us at arm’s length.  ~Frank Perkins

If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human.  The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.  ~Lloyd Alexander

Cat lovers can readily be identified.  Their clothes always look old and well used.  Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.  ~Eric Gurney

There has never been a cat
Who couldn’t calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair.
~Rod McKuen

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.  ~Jules Champfleury

Cats are smarter than dogs.  You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.  ~Jeff Valdez

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.  ~Paula Poundstone

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.  ~Dan Greenburg

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.  ~Andre Norton

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.

It doesn’t do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don’t respect you for it.  ~Susan Howatch

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.  It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.  ~Barbara Holland

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.  ~Jules Reynard

You own a dog but you feed a cat.  ~Jenny de Vries

Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet.  Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.  ~Lillian Johnson

The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat.  ~Michael McGarel

Dogs eat.  Cats dine.  ~Ann Taylor

In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.  ~Dereke Bruce

Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred.  "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs.  It also means fish.  It means genial companionship… and the absence of dogs.  ~Val Schaffner

The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind. ~Terri Guillemets

Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.  ~Hank Ketchum

Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.  ~Louise A. Belcher

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.  ~J.A. McIntosh

If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart.  ~Alan Devoe

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."  ~Dilys Laing, "Miao"

Every dog has his day – but the nights are reserved for the cats.  ~Author Unknown

The cat has always been associated with the moon.  Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.  ~Patricia Dale-Green

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value.  ~Author Unknown

Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction.  I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it.  There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts.  ~George Freedley

Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner.  ~Barbara L. Diamond

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.  ~Fernand Mery

Cats do care.  For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.  ~Michael Nelson

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.  ~Adlai Stevenson

Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule:  when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.  ~John Weitz

There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone.  ~Louis J. Camuti

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.  ~Dan Greenberg

Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr.  Usually all will be forgiven.  ~Lenny Rubenstein

Who among us hasn’t envied a cat’s ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?  ~Karen Brademeyer