1. Proverb - “The cat's meow.”

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2. Proverb - “Look what the cat dragged in.”

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3. Alfred North Whitehead - “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.”

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4. Jeff Valdez - “Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”

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5. Jeff Valdez - “Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”

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6. Mark Twain - “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.”

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7. Mark Twain - “Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”

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8. Mark Twain - “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

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9. Henry David Thoreau - “It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”

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10. Solomon Short - “Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators.”

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11. William Shakespeare - “The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”

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12. Terry Pratchett - “I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.”

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13. Patrick Jake 'P.J.' O'Rourke - “It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”

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14. Harold Monro - “When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.”

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15. Fernand Méry - “Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?”

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16. Abraham Lincoln - “I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

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17. Abraham Lincoln - “No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

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18. Doug Larson - “The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

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

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20. Garrison Keillor - “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

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21. Ben Jonson - “Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.”

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22. John Heywood - “The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.”

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23. John Heywood - “It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.”

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24. John Heywood - “A woman hath nine lives like a cat.”

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25. Oliver Herford - “A cat is a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”

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