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Throughout the centuries, cats have inspired cat lovers to define the mystical charm of our companion felines.

And for some of us, warm and fuzzy is where it’s at and now is always a good time to have a laugh.

For a moment, enjoy the insights of other cat lovers … from the past and the present … many who did and do belong to cats.

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Whether they be the musician cats in my band
     or the real cats of the world,
          they all got style.

               Ray Charles

Cats offer us a lesson in living without complaint.   ~   Author unknown

Never feed your cat anything that doesn’t match the carpet.   ~   Author unknown

My cat knows the song in my heart and purrs it to me when my memory fails. ~  Author unknown

Like a graceful vase, a cat, when motionless, seems to flow.    ... George F. Will To assume a cat’s asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.    ... Aileen Fisher Cats whiskers are so sensitive, they can find their way through the narrowest crack in a broken heart.    ... Pelushka I gave my cat a bath the other day. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that ...     ... Steve Martin People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.    ... Henry Morgan

What cat is averse to fish?  ~  Thomas Gray

In life there are two compensations ... Prozac and cats.  ~  Brian Walsh

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.   ~   Stephen Baker

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.   ~   Benjamin Franklin

A cat’s hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.
~   Stephen Baker

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

Cats do not think that they are little people.
They think that we are big cats.

This influences their behaviour in many ways.

... Author unknown

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.
   ~   Helen Powers

It’s really the cat’s house. I just pay the mortgage.
   ~   Author unknown

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

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

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.   ~    Jacquelyn Mitchard   Warm your heart and soothe your soul. Love a cat.   ~   Corinne MacPherson   My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.    ~   Zsa Zsa Gabor   There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats   ~    Albert Schweitzer

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur,
the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw
and a curved claw borrowed from the rose tree. 
~   Colette

Cats are living adornments.   ~    Edwin Lent

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.   ~   Louis Wain

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.   ~    Rodney Dangerfield

 

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
~   Barbara Holland

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, can he name a kitten?   ~  Samuel Butler

Cats are special because you can just hold them.   ~   Caitlin Tighe

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.   ~   Anatole France

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.   ~   Groucho Marx

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Cats are mysterious folks.

There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Sir Walter Scott

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.   ~   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them.   ~   Douglas Adams

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that don’t go cold.   ~   Author unknown    

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
     Abraham Lincoln

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
     Théophile Gautier

Love in any form is a precious commodity. Don’t let anyone tell you loving a cat is silly.
     Author unknown

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