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

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

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

"“Meow” means “woof” in cat. "
— George Carlin

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..."
— Albert Schweitzer

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

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
— Mark Twain

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
— Mark Twain

"You cannot live with a paw in each world."
— Erin Hunter (Into the Wild)

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court."
— Mark Twain (Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings)

"Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest."
— Erin Hunter (A Dangerous Path)

"Fire will save the Clan"
— Erin Hunter (Twilight)

"I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable)

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
— Mark Twain

"Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?'"
— Erin Hunter (Secrets of the Clans)

"Dogs have their day but cats have 365."
— Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office)

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

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

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
— Cleveland Amory

"Cats are just like humans emotionally; leaving one outside is like abandoning a child - so cruel and hurtful. No cats nor kittens deserve to be left outside alone."
— Tammy Huang

"And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling."
— Louise Rennison (Startled by His Furry Shorts)

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

"I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
— Maureen Johnson (The Key to the Golden Firebird)

"Cats are cats . . . the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran"
— Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who Saw Stars)

"Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?"
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds."
— Jean Burden (Celebration of Cats)

"“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”"
— Jules Verne

"There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming."
— Hans Holzer (The Ghost Hunter)

"To err is human; to purr, feline."
— Robert Byrne

"The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows,
Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;
It is always the same, wherever one goes.
And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say
that they do not like fighting, will often display
Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray.
And they
Bark bark bark bark bark bark
Until you can hear them all over the park."
— T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats)

"A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."
— Amy Lowell

"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."
— John Heywood (The proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that author printed 1546)

"No valentines from the cats again."
— Lynne Truss (Making the Cat Laugh)

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. "
— Dave Platt

"You only have one life, use it wisely that means NO life risking actiities unless it is fun.

-Robert Stodola"
— Robert Stodola