Cats have been part of human life for at least 3000 years.  Talk to a cat lover, and at some point they will work their pet into the conversation.  Here are some great quotes having to do with felines.  Some are from great thinkers, artists, and politicians.  Others are from humorists.  They inform and amuse, and span our various attitudes towards these most distinctive of pets. 

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.

- Abraham Lincoln

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner.

- Gary Smith

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

- Montaigne

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

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

- George Mikes

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

- George Mikes

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

- Jenny de Vries

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?

- Fernand Mery

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

- Dan Greenberg

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

- Leo Dworken

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

- Martin Buxbaum

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

- Winifred Carriere

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

- Will Cuppy

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

- Lynn M. Osband

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.

- James Mason

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

- Hank Ketchum

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

- Missy Dizick

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