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

“For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.”

“The cat does not merely experience contentment, he exudes it. You cannot be in the presence of a contented cat and not have some of that contentment rub off on you. Which surely is a good part of the reason we love cats so.”

“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”

“Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!”

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”

“A Persian Cat! Not an Iranian cat, no: an Iranian cat has a bomb under the body warmer!”

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”