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“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

“Owners 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, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

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

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
― Mark Twain

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Me-EHH-UF-ow”
― P.C. Cast, Marked

“I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
― Colette

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
― Pam Brown

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies

“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”
― P.C. Cast, Marked

“There are no ordinary cats.”
― Colette

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

“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, The Cat Who Came for Christmas

“You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
― Hippolyte Taine

“Of all the things God created, from sunrises and rainbows, to black holes and humor, cats are the most fascinating to me.
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― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.