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The cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet.
- 13th Century Proverb

A cat in gloves catches no mice.
- 16th Century Proverb

At many human faults a cat will never take offence,
Two things though they can not stand,
The wretched door, the horrid fence.
- Brian Aldiss

Cats are only human, they have their faults.
- Kingsley Amis

There is no doubt that it is very flattering when a cat jumps on to your lap.
- Kingsley Amis

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

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
- Wesley Bates

It is easy to see why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures...
- Charles Baudelaire

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
- Charles Baudelaire

Dogs have owners. Cats have slaves.
- Amanda Bell

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
- Mary Bly

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

Cats hate a closed door...regardless of which side they're on.
- Lilian Jackson Braun

A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
- Arthur Bridges

I can say with sincerity that I like cats ...A cat is a an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
- Emily Bronte

A cat's purr - kitchen, tabby or tiger - is the most contented sound on earth.
- Pam Brown

Kittens and curtains. One must choose which one loves most.
- Pam Brown

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
- Pam Brown

With a cat there is out time and food time and doze time and play time - and a time given over entirely to slosh. Nose against nose, face against face, pattings and snugglings and rapturous purrings, and a cuddling down to sleep.
- Pam Brown

A cats rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
- William S. Burroughs

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course, he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
- William S. Burroughs

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"
- Samuel Butler

To err is human, to purr feline.
- Robert Byrne

Most cats, when they are out want to be in, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
- Louis J. Camuti

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
- Louis J. Camuti

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

Cats don't like change without their consent.
- Roger A. Caras

"All right," said the Cat, and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
- Lewis Carroll

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.
- Eleanor Clark

I love cats because I love my home, and after a while they become its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau

By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.
- Colette

Making friends with a cat can only be a profitable experience.
- Colette

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

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

There are no ordinary cats.
- Colette

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
- Colette

A cat that lives with a good family is used to being talked to all the time.
- Lettice Cooper

Cats are designated friends.
- Norman Corwin

Given a houseful of carpets, shelves, cushions, chairs, window sills, any cat will choose to sleep on the document you are using.
- Dominic Courcel

You haven't lived until you have lived with a cat.
- Doris Day

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.
- Barbara L. Diamond

You don't train cats. They train you.
- Allen and Ivy Dodd

What's virtue in man can't be vice in a cat.
- Mary Abigail Dodge

The cat, aristocrat both in type and origin, which has been so greatly maligned, deserves our respect at least.
- Alexandre Dumas

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

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
- Monica Edwards

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot

The cat is hungry when a crust contents her.
- English Proverb

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
- Joseph Epstein

Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.
- Chris Evert

Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old cat.
- Thomas Fuller

Kittens can happen to anyone.
- Paul Gallico

A cat, with its phosphorescent eyes that shine like lanterns, and sparks flashing from its back, moves fearlessly through the darkness.
- Theophile Gautier

Cats have very small vocabularies. They don't see why they should waste time learning words. After all - they have no intention of obeying anyone.
- Charlotte Gray

One must love a cat on its own terms.
- Peter Gray

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

A kitten is...mischief in mink.
- Christine Harris

One cat just leads to another.
- Ernest Hemingway

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
- Ernest Hemingway

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
- Victor Hugo

My kittens look at me like little angels - and always after doing something especially devilish.
- Jamie Ann Hunt

If you want to write, keep cats.
- Aldous Huxley

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

A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world.
- Irish Legend

A hungry cat outperforms the loudest alarm clock.
- Li Ming Jin

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

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

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

We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.
- Allen Lacy

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson

The cat and dog may kiss, yet none are better friends.
- Latin Proverb

The cat knows whose lips she licks.
- Latin Proverb

Cats are living adornments.
- Edwin Lent

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

To satisfy a cat a new state of being needs to be created - halfway between in and out.
- Stuart and Linda MacFarlane

Do not attempt to teach your cats tricks - they already know every trick there is.
- Sidra Malik

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
- Jean Asper McIntosh

A ball of yarn - a cat - that's that.
- Margaret Meyers

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
- Susanne Millen

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.
- Jacqilyn Mitchard

You are my cat and I am your human.
- Michel de Montaigne

The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half of the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
- Lady Sydney Morgan

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
- Hazel Nicholson

I learned the lesson of life from a little kitten of mine.
- Florence Nightingale

It was soon noticed that whenever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
- George Orwell

I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.
- Debbie Peterson

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
- Nan Porter

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

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier

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

Most people are just like cats in that if you rub them the right way, they will purr.
- William Ross

There are two ways to escape human misery, playing the organ and watching cats play.
- Albert Schweitzer

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
- Sir Walter Scott

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and the dog will have his day.
- William Shakespeare

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in a garden.
- Robert Southey

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine

A cat does not want all the world to love her - only those she has chosen to love.
- Helen Thomson

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
- Henry David Thoreau

A house without a cat, a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?
- Mark Twain

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
- Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. 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

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten ...and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
- Evelyn Underhill

Cats are just children with fur.
- Unknown

Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
- Unknown

Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
- Unknown

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
- Unknown

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

The more people I meet, the more I like my cat.
- Unknown

The world belongs to cats you know, they let us own them just for show.
- Unknown

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
- Unknown

When you have a cat, everyday is purr-fect.
- Unknown

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
- Cynthia E Varnado

Even the smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci

A cat is a miracle.
- Oscar Wilde

If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.
- Larry Wright

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