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"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
- Steven Wright

"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

"There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."
- Dan Greenberg

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

"Don’t worry that your cat doesn’t understand what you say; he doesn’t care what you’re thinking anyway."
- Dr. Jeri Schwalb

"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

"Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat."
- Lillian Johnson

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
- Groucho Marx

"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
- Mark Twain

"No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail."
- Rosalind Welcher

"The cat: an animal that’s so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time."
- Evan Esar

"In these days of tension, human beings can learn a great deal about relaxation from watching a cat, who doesn’t just lie down when it is time to rest, but pours his body on the floor and rests in every nerve and muscle."
- Murray Robinson

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

"It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming."
- Adlai Stevenson

"It is impossible to find a place in which a cat can’t hide."
- Bill Carraro

"Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect."
- James Mason

"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."
- Jacquelyn Mitchard

"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world’s free souls."
- Eric Gurney

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
- William John Bennett

"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes."
- T. S. Eliot

"A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to."
- Dr. Louis J. Camuit

"A sleeping cat is ever alert."
- Fred Scwab

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

"Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you"
-Mary Bly

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff"
- Anonymous

"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat doesn’t need to know that everybody loves him."
- William Kunstler

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren’t like this. A dog’s idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish."
- James Gorman

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
- Robert A. Heinlein

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

"A dog is a man’s best friend. A cat is a cat’s best friend."
- Robert J. Vogel

"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

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

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

"Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people."
- Andre Norton

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

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

"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see."
- Eleanor Farjeon

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

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats."
- Anonymous

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

"All loyalty has a little fur in it."
- M. Malloy

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

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

"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion."
- Christopher Smart

"I can’t decide if I have a cat or a cat has me."
- Esther Marton

"Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun."
- Lloyd Alexander

"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow."
- George Will

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