“Just watching my cats can make me happy.”
– Paula Cole
“Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.”
– Earl Derr Biggers
“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.”
– Agnes Repplier
“Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.”
– John Peers
“Kittens can happen to anyone.”
– Paul Gallico
“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”
– Nicholas D. Kristof
“Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.”
– Andre Norton
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”
– W. L. George
“There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”
– Dick Dale
“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”
– Agnes Repplier
“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
– William S. Burroughs
“If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.”
– Doug Coupland
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
– Max Eastman
“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”
– Juliette Lewis
“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”
– Robert Southey
“The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.”
– Bob Hope
“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”
– Bernard Williams
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
– Bill Dana
“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.”
– August Strindberg
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“Even cats grow lonely and anxious.”
– Mason Cooley
“We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet.”
– Rita Rudner
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
– Jules Verne
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”
– Cleveland Amory
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
– Garrison Keillor
“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”
– Rod McKuen