CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature... - Ambrose Bierce

"Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats."

"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." - Mark Twain

"Beware of people who dislike cats." - Irish Sayings

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

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menaul

"Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling." - Helen Powers

"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." - Geoffrey Household

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave." - Theophile Gautier

"When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'." - Susan McDonough

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her." - Michel de Montaigne

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." - Eugene O'Neill

"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."

"Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff." - lokiandari

"The cat is above all things, a dramatist." - Margaret Benson

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort." - James Herriot

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Sigmund Freud

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

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather." - Judith Merkle Riley

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau

"Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, 'I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?'" - Bette Midler

"Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"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