You can't help that. We're all mad here. - The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

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 lash. 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

With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. - John Dobbin

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

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso

I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. - Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... - T.S. Eliot

The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. - Michael McGarel

We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. - Megan Coughlin

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

You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same. - Jack Wright (of Kingston, Ontario, the Guinness Book record holder for the owner of the most cats at one time [689])

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

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

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular.- Helen Thomson