[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

- Christopher Hitchens

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Rebecca West

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

- Albert Schweitzer

It's better to feed one cat than many mice.

- Norwegian Proverb

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems.

- Helen M. Winslow

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert Heinlein

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- P. G. Wodehouse

It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

- Robert Heinlein

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

There are no ordinary cats.

- Colette

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

- Colette

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

- Michel de Montaigne



The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

- Leonardo da Vinci



I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

- Winston Churchill



If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain