The cat has too much spirit to have no heart -- Ernest Menaul

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives -- Albert Schweitzer

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men -- St. Francis of Assisi

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

What greater gift than the love of a cat? -- Charles Dickens, writer

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal -- Sir Compton Mackenzie

Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat -- Chinese Proverb

What greater gift than the love of a cat? -- Charles Dickens

The Cheshire cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect -- Lewis Carroll

I am not a friend and I am not a servant. I am the Cat that walks by himself and I wish to come into your cave -- Rudyard Kipling

Oh heaven will not ever heaven be unless my cats are there to welcome me -- Epitaph in a pet cemetery

A loving cat can mend a wounded heart -- Anonymous

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more -- Agnes Repplier

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

Cats must have three names - an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular name -- T.S. Eliot

What greater gift than the love of a cat? -- Charles Dickens

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through -- Jules Verne