“A home without a cat- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
– Pudd’nhead Wilson

“If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
– Mark Twain

“A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.”
-Mark Twain Notebook, 1895

“I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.”
– Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher

“Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. 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 Notebook, 1894

“You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.”
– George Mikes from “How to be decadent

“Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you.”
– Mary Bly

“For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.”
– Anon

“I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.”
– Jean Cocteau

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.”
– Tay Hohoff

” God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.”
– Fernand Mery

“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.”
– Tay Hohoff

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. “
– Jeff Valdez