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

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson

When a cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.  - T. S. Eliot

Chocolate

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

Lego

The cat is a dilettante in fur. -  Theophile Gautier

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

There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair
- Rod McKuen

Atticus

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long." -  Walt Whitman

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." -  Abraham Lincoln

Annabelle

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.   - James Thurber

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! - David Starr Jordan

Paulo

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

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.   - Monica Edwards

Billi

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

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.   -  Paul Corey

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.  - Jules Champfleury

Nora

I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. - Debbie Peterson

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.  - Carl Van Vechten