Cats cooperate, dogs perform.
Brad Thompson
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Carl Van Vechten
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
Dereke Bruce
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Ellen Perry Berkeley
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
Pam Brown
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Bill Dana
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
Carl Van Vechten
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
Mary Bly
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
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
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
Joseph Epstein
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule.
If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
Sidney Denham
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
James Gorman
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction.
It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
Stephen Baker
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
Karen Brademeyer
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
Arthur Weigall
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
Mark Twain Notebook, 1895
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.
Lynn M. Osband
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
Louis Wain