It's very depressing to realize you have nothing to take a vacation from. - Kit 'N' Carlyle by Larry Wright

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed - she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
- Lenore Fleischer

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, D.M.V.

Whereas cats are violins, dogs are kazoos.
- Bob Lovka

Whether they be real cats or the musician cats in my band – they all got style!
- Ray Charles

Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?
- Elizabeth Hamilton

"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, Sourcery

“Oh. Auntie. isn't he a beauty! And is he a gentleman or a lady?"
"Neither, my dear! I had him fixed. It saves him from so many undesirable associations."
- D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930 Puss-Puss

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
- Samuel Palmer

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

A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.
- Jenny de Vries

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
- William Ralph Inge

A cat can climb down from a tree without the assistance of the fire department or any other agency. The proof is that no one has ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree.
- unknown

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
- Pam Brown

A cat can purr its way out of anything.
- Donna McCrohan

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security, and a place in the sun. Her high self-sufficiency is her charm.
- Charles Horton Cooley

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
- Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.

A cat doesn't 'roll' well with a change of someone else's making.
- Carole Wilbourn

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

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
- Ernest Hemingway

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

A cat is a creature that never cries over spilt milk.
- Evan Esar

A cat is a mobile pillow who eats.
- unknown

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

A cat is a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
- Oliver Herford 1863-1935 American Writer.

A cat is a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
- Ambrose Bierce

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
- Vakaoka Genrin

A cat is a very special friend who comes into your life. When it comes it brings warmth, companionship, contentment and love. Whether it's long-haired, short-haired, pedigreed or "heinz" makes no difference.
- Sharon Lundblad

A cat is always on the wrong side of the door.
- unknown

A cat is an attitude with fur.
- unknown.

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.
- unknown

A cat is never vulgar.
- Carl Van Vechten

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 (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Cats come and go without ever leaving.
- Martha Curtis

Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length.
- Frank Perkins.

Cats demonstrate total clarity of judgement and taste - the best of anything can be deemed as just satisfactory.
- unknown

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

Cats do not declare their love much; they enact it, by their myriad invocations of our pleasure.
- Vickie Hearne

Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore.
- Sidney Denham

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

Cats do not think that they are little people. They think that we are big cats. This influences their behavior in many ways.
- unknown

Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.
- Wright Morris

Cats don’t have lifestyles, we have napstyles.
- Larry Wright (Kit ‘N’ Carlyle)

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

Cats don’t look at people, they look into them.
- Bob Lovka

Cats don’t rent, they own.
- Bob Lovka

Cats exhibit only one type of behavior - distinct!
- Bob Lovka

Cats, flies and women are ever at their toilets.
- French Proverb

Cats, gazing into our faces with unconditional love - hold up the mirror of self-awareness with unflinching honesty.
- Allen & Linda Anderson

Cats hate water only when it is dumped on them, as who wouldn't? Given the opportunity, they will fish diligently in the neighborhood fish ponds.
- Eric Temple Bell

Cats have amazingly keen hearing but go conveniently deaf when you call.
- unknown

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and how to get between you and it.
- Arthur Bridges

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
- Cleveland Amory

Cats have incredible vision - but they never see your flaws.
- Anonymous

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
- Roy Blount, Jr.

Cats instinctively know the precise moment their owners will awaken...then they awaken them ten minutes earlier.
- Jim Davis

Cats invented self-esteem.
- Irma Bombeck

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
- Walter Lionel George 1882-1926

The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal. He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
- Jules Champfleury

The main difference between cats nd men is that you can always trust a cat.
- Bob Lovka

The majority of people who still have back doors don't let their cats go through them.
- Charlene Beane

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
- Mark Twain.

The man who doesn’t love cats will never have a pretty woman.
- Dutch Proverb

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.
- Lynn M. Osband

The more elaborate the toy the less your cat will play with it.
- Bob Lovka

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

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names . . .
- T.S. Eliot

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
- Sir Compton MacKenzie