"The cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." --Hazel Nicholson

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." --Nan Porter

"Every dog has its day, but nights are reserved for cats." --Unknown

"To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake." --Aileen Fisher

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk." --Sir Walter Scott

"If a dog jumps up 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

"Cats are only human, they have their faults." --Kingsley Amis

"The thing about cats, as you may find, is that no one knows what they have in mind." --John Ciardi

"Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening." --Alwin Nikolais

"I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare." --Joyce Stranger

"Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less them themselves." --A.S.J. Tessimond

"What sort of philosophers are we who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?" --Henry David Thoreau

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

"All cats are possessed of a proud spirit, and the surest way to forfeit the esteem of a cat is to treat him as an inferior being." --Michael
Joseph

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering, outspoken, honest fellow--but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." --Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream." --William Shakespeare

"The cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." --Rudyard Kipling

"Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end." --Charles Baudelaire