Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
- Irish proverb

Life with a cat is in certain ways a one-sided proposition. Cats are not educable; humans are. Moreover, cats know this. If you are not willing to humor them, you might as well stick to dogs.
- Terry Teachout

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

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

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

A cat that catches mice does not meow.
- Chinese proverb

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Montaigne

When the cat’s away, the rats dance on the table.
- Swedish proverb

Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant.
- Maurice Burton

When the cat's away the mice will play.
- English Proverb

A cat may look at a king.
- John Heywod

It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.
- Pilpay

A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat—may be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
- Mark Twain

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

The trouble with a kitten is
That
Eventually it becomes a
Cat.
- Ogden Nash

Cat and monkeys, monkeys and cats--all human life is there.
- Henry James

Cats seem to go on the pincipal that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

 

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