Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot

A cat doesn't know what it wants and wants more of it.
Richard Hexem

The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times - the cat not even once.
W. E. Farbstein

Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
Sidney Denham

The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanack.

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

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

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James

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

I can't think much of a people who drew cats the same for four thousand years.
Lord Kitchener
On Egyptian art.

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

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

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

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

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort.
Compton Mackenzie

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

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen

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

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.
Andrew Mercer

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?
Fernand Mery

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

God made the cat so that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Ferdinand Mery

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am with her?
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays 1580.

The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
Ogden Nash

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

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Everybody could be beautiful, really, but most women present themselves so awkwardly. Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Alwin Nikolais

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

It is 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 that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
P. J. O'Rourke
Modern Manners.

Four little Persians, but one only 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

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.
Kinky Friedman

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

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
Jane Pauley