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• "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.

• "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill.

• "No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln.

• "Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner." - Gary Smith.

• When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne.

• "After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference." - Charlotte Gray.

• "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer.

• "The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat." - Jules Renard.

• "You own a dog but you feed a cat." - Jenny de Vries.

• "One must love a cat on its own terms." - Paul Gray.

• "Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly.

• "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch.

• "No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch." - Leo Dworken.

• "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau.

• "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez.

• "The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer." - Paula Poundstone.

• "When you are looking, a cat acts like a princess, but the minute they think you are not looking, a cat acts like a fool." - KC Buffington.

• "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." - Doug Larson.

• "Cats are designated friends." - Norman Corwin.

• "Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." - Desmond Morris.

• "The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...it's also the reason they hate birds." - K.C. Buffington.

• "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.

• "A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings." - William Ralph Inge.

• "When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'." - Susan McDonough, D.M.V.

• "People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around." - Susan Easterly.

• "Cats like doors left open--in case they change their minds."- Rosemary Nisbet.

• "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent." - Ann Morrow Lindbergher

• "One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home." - Pam Brown.

• "The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle." - Roseanne Ambrose Bro.

• "There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat."  - Tay Hohoff.

• "Time spent with cats is never wasted." - May Sarton.

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

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