Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
Dave Platt

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor H. Porter

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.
Paula Poundstone

"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

People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
Faith Resnick

Lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation.
Philippe Diole

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - Sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.
Mike Royko

Cats are successful underachievers. They only need to purr in order to get free food and TLC. What other creature can lay around the house doing nothing beyond purring, and still get free food and TLC?
Jim Aites

Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the Grassy Knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.
Dave Barry

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

Like scientists, cats love their privacy. When you see a bump under the blankets that signfies your cat is seeking solitude, simple courtesy demands that you leave the room. Obviously, your co-dependency is so advanced that you think your cat needs you to help him manage the time he spends away from you. To you, intimacy means control, and your cat is doing everything in its power to free itself from your manipulation. You sense this, and it terrifies you to think that you might have to learn to spend some time alone, as your cat is doing. Your cat has a life. Don't you think it's time you got one as well?
Dr. Science

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet.

Though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing.

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
Christopher Smart

Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?
Robert Stearns

You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.
Henry Swanson

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
Henry David Thoreau

Our kitten Min, two-thirds grown, was playing with Sophia's broom this morning, as she was sweeping the parlor, when she suddenly went into a fit, dashed round the room, and, the door being opened, rushed up two flights of stairs and leaped from the attic window to the ice and snow by the side of the doorstep--a descent of a little more than twenty feet--passed round the house and was lost. But she made her appearance again about noon, at the window, quite well and sound in every point, even playful and frisky.
Henry David Thoreau

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
James Thurber

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?
Irving Townsend

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
Mark Twain

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward - you will never get her full confidence again.
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

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

A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementally adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their suppertime. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
Sylvia Townsend Warner

A meow massages the heart.
Stuart McMillan

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.
Calvin and Hobbes
Comic strip by Bill Watterson.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead