Cat owners talk about their cats.
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed - she brings to you
the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your
voice, the touch of your hand.
- Lenore Fleischer
A cat must either have beauty and breeding, or it must have a profession.
- Margaret Benson
A harmless, necessary cat.
- William Shakespeare
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years
of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household,
who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.
- Charles Baudelaire
Cats are forever.
- François Fossier
Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing
ingenious in that respect.
- James Mason
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait,
both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through
low surf.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
Dynasties of cats, as numerous as the dynasties of the Pharaohs, succeed
each other under my roof? The memory of the cats we have lost fades like
the memory of men.
- Theophile Gautier
Getting a cat is a greater commitment than getting married.
- Seymour and Paula Chwast
Here lies a pretty cat:
Its mistress, who never loved anyone,
Loved it madly;
Why bother to say so? Everyone can see it.
- Epitaph on tombstone of cat, with full-relief detail of the deceased
I cannot exist without a cat...Life would not be worth living without
a cat.
- Peggy Bacon
I don't care what color the cat is, as long as it catches the rat.
- Deng Xiaoping
I love cats, I adore cats, and may be forgiven for putting one in the
sky, after sixty years of hard work.
- [On his efforts to launch a cat into space] - J. J. L. de Lalande
I love cats. I even think we have one at home.
- Edward Burlingame
I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become
its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau
If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so
I can live inside him.
- Drew Barrymore
If 'twere not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.
- Ebenezer Elliott
In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably
for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only
one, but I could not live without a cat.
- J. K. Huysmans
It depends on what is in my house. If there was a cat, and my works,
I would save the cat. A cat's life is more important than art.
- [when asked which of his creations he would rescue from a fire]
- Alberto Giacometti
It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.
Explaining why his kitten, Patsy, didn't accompany him on his legendary
transatlantic flight.
- Charles Lindbergh
Momma loves morals and Papa loves cats.
- Susy Clemens (daughter of author Mark Twain)
One must love a cat on its own terms.
- Paul Gray
Some cats are blind and stone deaf but ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.
- Anthony Henderson Euwer
There are no ordinary cats.
- Colette
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
When I'm in the doghouse, my cats still come to visit.
- Anonymous
Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple
little things, and I love cats!
- Michelle Gardner
He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his
head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove,
discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.
- Lloyd Alexander
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