Being adopted by a stray cat is a sign that you are a kind, generous, warm-hearted sucker.
Giovanni Andretti
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound whenever you jump on it.
Stephen Baker
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of concviction, -- and a cat. The last ingredient is usually the hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker
Cat's hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to go in one ear and out the other.
Stephen Baker
Like those great sphinxes loungeing through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
Charles Baudelaire
The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat.
Charles J. Brady
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration, and get between you and it.
Arthur Bridges
A cat isn't fussy--just as 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
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown
A cat's purr - kitchen, tabby, or tiger - is the most centered sound on earth.
Pam Brown
Never belittle the comfort offered by a cat - she has no words, but by small touchings and buttings and leanings, she shows her love for you - and tries to distract you from your sorrows.
Pam Brown
The cat does no 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
In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.
Dr. Louis Camuti
Cats don't like change without their consent.
Roger A. Caras
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
Jules Champfleury
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Colette
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
Colonial Proverb
Given a household of carpets, shelves, cushions, chairs, window sills, any cat will choose to sleep on the document you are using.
Dominic Courcel
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo DaVinci
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats just have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique.
Jenny DeVries
A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.
Jenny DeVries
No amount of time can erase the momory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
Leo Dworken
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
Monica Edwards
Stare unabashedly.
"Everything I need to know I learned from my cat"
Lonliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to skin,or - skin to fur.
Paul Gallico
Sometimes he will sit in front of you with eyes so melting, so carressing and so human, that they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
Theophile Gautier
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
Bruce Graham
The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentailly unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
Eric Gurney
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should get used to the idea.
Robert Heinlein
While still a kitten, all fluff and buzzes, Pete had worked out a simple philosophy. I was in charge of quarters, rations, and weather; he was in charge of everything else.
Robert Heinlein -"The Door into Summer"
One cat just leads to another.
Earnest Hemmingway
I have noticed what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value.
Geoffrey Household
There are few things more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat.
Tay Hohoff
But the wildest of all animals was the cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
Rudyard Kipling
Cats are living adornments.
Edwin Lint
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Lazarus Long
If there is just one beam of sunshine coming into a room you can be sure that the cat is lazing in its heat.
Stuart and Linda Macfarlaine
Cats try to teach their humans a few basic words of cat language. they find most humans can learn such phrases as, "Let me out," You're an idiot," "I want some dinner," and "Play with me."
Stuart and Linda Macfarlaine
A meow massages the heart.
Stuart McMillan
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Ward Manor
The cat has too much heart to have no spirit.
Ernest Menaul
A black cat slipped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoon full of dark treacle, and melted under a gate.
Elizabeth Lemarchand
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to beleive there is nothing miraculous in this world.
Leonard Michaels
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. . . because I know they're just sitting there thinking up wys to get even.
Penny Ward Moser
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
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
Hazel Nicholson
The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish those alert, gentle, descriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier
He lies there, purring and dreaming, shifting his limbs mow and then in an ecstasy of cushioned comfort. He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvetly, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer. . .
Saki
There are two refuges from the misery of life -music and cats.
A. Schweitzer
The softness of a kitten's feet, like raspberries held in the hand.
Douglas Sedgewick
There's no dealing with a cat who knows you're awake.
Brad Solomon
A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.
Robert Southey
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience.
Michael Stevens
[The cat] would walk up and down between the bads [of daffodils], the black plume of her tail mingling with the grenn spikes of the daffodil leaves, and sometimes when i was bending down to pick a stem, she would come to me, pushing her head against my hand, and then I would cease to pick, and proceed to pay her the attention that she expected of me. Or I would put a basket down at the edge of a meadow, go on with my picking, then look back and find her sitting in the basket.
Dekek Tangye
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
A. S. S. Tessimond
Cats are love on four legs.
Richard Terregrosse
Cats asleep everywhere, like motorized bookends.
Audrey Thomas
If it's raining at the back door, every cat is convinced there's a good chance that it won't be raining at the front door.
William Toms
Unlike us, cats never lose their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expecations.
Irving Townsend
Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get 8 cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
John Weitz
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even motionless, flows.
George F. Will
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
George Will
Cats find malicious amusement in doing what they are not wanted to do, and that with an affectation of innocence that naturally aggravates their deliberate offense.
Helen Winslow
Cats jump at the threads of your heart and become entangeld in it.
2000 years ago Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
A home is where the cat hair sticks to everything but the cat.
A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; Certainly both are worth the risk.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are gods.
Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles.
There is no sleep button on a cat who wants breakfast.
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