"Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?" --Robert Stearns
"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave."--Theophile Gautier
" How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven." Robert A. Heinlein
" A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." Ernest Hemingway