"There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone." ~Louis J. Camuti

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." ~Ernest Hemingway 

 "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.

 "People who don't like cats haven't met the right one yet." ~Deborah A. Edwards

 "Cats were put into the world to dispose the dogma that all things were created to serve man." ~Paul Gray

 "Time spent with cats is never wasted." ~May Sarton

 "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats." ~Albert Schwietzer

 "Fall seven times, stand up eight." ~Japanese Proverb

 "Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet." ~Colette

 "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." ~Winston Churchill

 "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." ~Colonial Proverb

 "To err is human, to purr is feline." ~Robert Byrne

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

 "Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds." ~Jean Burden

 "Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously, those people have never met an angry cat." ~Lillian Johnson

 "Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness." ~Beverly Nichols

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

 "Always, the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly." ~Andre Norton

 "In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." ~Teryy Pratchett

 "I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days." ~Bill Dana

 "A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She won't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it." ~Jerome K. Jerome

 "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." ~Mark Twain