"One cat just leads to another" - Hemingway
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats" - Albert Schweitzer
"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" - Fernand Mery
"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals." - Unknown
"Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
"Confront a child, a puppy and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission; the kitten will brace it's tiny body
for a frantic resistance." - Saki
"Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow." - Unknown
"People that hate cats probably were mice in an earlier life." - Faith Resnick
"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart" - Ernest Menaul
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American Proverb
"Every cat is a lion at home" - Italian Saying
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
"Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of casts is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkely
"A kitten is the rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom." - Robert Southey
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau
"Great golden comma of a cat, You spring to catch my robe's one dangling thread, And somehow land entangled in my heart." - Lija Broadhurst
"...A family cat is not replaceable like a worn-out coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes his own cat, and none is repeated. I am four-cats old, measuring out my life in friends that
have succeeded, but not replaced one another." - Irving Townsend
"There are no ordinary cats." - Colette
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Kruth
"A morning kiss, a discreet touch of his nose landing somewhere on the middle of my face. Because his long white whiskers tickled, I began every day laughing." - Janet F. Faure
"Her conscious tail her joy declared;
The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws,
Her coat, that with the tortoise vies,
Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes,
She saw and purred applause." - From 'Ode to a Favourite Cat,' Thomas Gray
"Keep one eye on the frying-pan, and the other on the cat." - Old Italian Proverb
"My love she is a kitten, And my heart's a ball of string." - From 'My Love and My Heart,' by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
cat (kat) n. [Latin cattus] 1. a small, soft-furred animal, often kept as a pet or for killing mice.