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

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?

- Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson)

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

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

- John Weitz, American Designer

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

-- Steven Wright

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