"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, you end up with a non-working cat. Do not try this."

"Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats."

"A cat which dares to scratch me while we're at peace, no matter how many times it may then caress me, shall never be …"

"The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on …"

"CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle."

"I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy …"

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could…"

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."

"... in 2007 ... a study of the DNA of the entire cat family—the —revealed that it was composed of eight district grou…"

"I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them."