RON HENGGELER

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."

Paul Gray

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

Mary Bly

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

French Proverb

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

Albert Schweitzer

"Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it."

Arthur Bridges

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

Dan Greenberg

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

George F. Will

I have noticed that 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

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Colette

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

Jean Cocteau

"You can't help that. We're all mad here."

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."

Anonymous

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."

Unknown

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

P. G. Wodehouse

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."

Anonymous

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Martin Buxbaum

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer."

Paula Poundstone

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

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."

Mark Twain

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

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

Terry Pratchett

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."

George Will

"A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes."

Indian Saying

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley Bates

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

Emile Auguste Chartier

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Jules Reynard

A cat can purr its way out of anything.

Donna McCrohan

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."

Charlotte Gray

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."

Helen Thomson

"The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you."

Pam Brown

"All cats like being the focus of attention."

Peter Gray

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old."

Carl Van Vechten

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

"Honest as the Cat when the meat's out of reach."

Old English saying

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 there thinking up ways to get even.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs."

Sarah Thompson

Cats don't like change without their consent.

Roger Caras

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Rebecca West

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

"What greater gift than the love of a cat?"

Charles Dickens

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she to me?"

Montaigne

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds."

KC Buffington

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."

George Mikes

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci

There are no ordinary cats.

Colette

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Roger Caras

"A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world."

Irish Legend

"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."

Patricia Hitchcock

"Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him."

Lynn Hollyn

"There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat."

Tay Hohoff

"The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle."

Roseanne Ambrose Brown

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.

Louis F. Camuti, DVM

If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.

Winifred Carriere

A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.

Bill Adler

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Tay Hohoff

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...

Saki (H. H. Munro)

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

William Lyon Phelps

"Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?"

Irish Saying

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!"

Theophile Gautier

Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.

Stephen Baker

"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it."

Unknown

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.

Mugsy Peabody

"Cats like doors left open--in case they change their minds."

Rosemary Nisbet

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

Pam Brown

"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 de Vries

"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."

Pam Brown

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

Missy Dizick

"When addressed, a gentleman cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard."

Mary Sarton

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

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

Stephen Baker

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

Lynn M. Osband