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
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain
Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. – Paul Corey
Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. – Proverb
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. – Dan Greenburg
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. “Mnrhnh” means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship… and the absence of dogs. – Val Schaffner
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. – Barbara Holland
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. – Jane Pauley
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. – Pierre Loti
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes
If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart. – Alan Devoe
To err is human, to purr is feline. – Robert Byrne
Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. – Eric Gurney
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. – E.W. Howe
Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. – Proverb
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. – Stephen Baker
Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. – P.G. Wodehouse
