A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown

A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
William Lyon Phelps

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
Caryl Chessman

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
William Kunstler

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Lord Chesterfield

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Walter de La Mare

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Andre Norton

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
Francois Truffaut

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Wayne Coyne

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten

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.
Cleveland Amory

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll