What greater gift than the love of a cat?
Charles Dickens

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

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

Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Ambrose Bierce

If only cats grew into kittens.
R. Stern

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

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

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

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

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

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
Gelett Burgess

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

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

We all have our "good old days" tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs.
Brian Carter

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes

A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude.
Jules Champfleury

When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed.
Jules Champfleury

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played by this incomparable actor.
Jules Champfleury

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

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

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
William Conway

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli

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

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human.
Roy Blount, Jr.

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

If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With man, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash"and "grass."He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego . . . The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.
Paul Corey

I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room.
Rodney Dangerfield

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
Erasmus Darwin

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

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis

You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen.
Robert A. Heinlein

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford

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.