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Cats have long been the chosen companions of writers, poets and intellectuals.
A few of their quotes:

Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~ Colette

There are no ordinary cats. — Colette

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece” – Leonardo Da Vinci

I love cats because I enjoy my home, and little by little, they become its visible soul. — Jean Cocteau, French poet and filmmaker

“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!” - Theophile Gautier

A loving cat can mend a wounded heart.
- Anonymous

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. — Jean Burden

Like a graceful vase a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. — George Will

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden

“When they are among us, cats are angels.” – George Sand

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They all own cats. ~ Author Unknown

Cats are the natural companions of intellectuals. They are silent watchers of dreams, inspiration and patient research. ~ Dr. Fernand Mery
author, The Life, History and Magic of the Cat

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? — Fernand Mery, French writer

Cats are a mysterious folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Sir Walter Scott

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
Eleanor Farjeon

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic. ~ T S Eliot

“The more people I meet, the more I like my cat.” – Anonymous

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle

Her function is to sit and be admired. - Georgina Strickland Gates

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - W. L. George

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” Robert Heinlein

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein

A cat’s got her own opinion of human beings. She don’t say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
- Jerome K. Jerome

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward - you will never get her full confidence again. ~ Mark Twain

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. ~ Rod McKuen

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. ~ Paul Gray

“All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.” – Winston Churchill

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

“One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~ Colonial American proverb

Beware of people who dislike cats. Irish proverb

The man who loves cats will love his wife. - Russian proverb

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No heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me.

Epitaph on an ancient tombstone in England

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