"Cats only assume their strangest, most intriguing and most beautiful postures when it is impossible to photograph them. Cat calendars disappoint for they only show the public range of cat positions." --J.R. Coulson

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home." --Pam Brown

"Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them." --Sir Compton MacKenzie

"After scolding one's cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word and has filed it for reference." --Charlotte Gray

"You can keep a dog, but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals." --George Mikes

"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience." --Pam Brown

"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me, rather than I with her." --Montaigne

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

"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." --Hippolyte Taine

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs. I wrote it." --Dilys Laing

"A cat can purr its way out of anything." --Donna McCrohan

"Happiness does not light gently on my shoulder like a butterfly. She pounces on my lap, demanding that I scratch behind her ears." --Anonymous

"Cats are like greatness; Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and others have cats thrust upon them." --William H.A. Carr

"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 the connoisseurs of comfort." --James Herriot