If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
—Alfred North Whitehead
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
—Ogden Nash
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.
—Nan Porter
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country.
—Phyllis Wright
In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him.
—Peterborough Examiner
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
—Alfred North Whitehead
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
—Albert Einstein
My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.
—Liz Smith
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
—Théophile Gautier
The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are.
—G. C. Lichtenberg
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
—P. J. O'Rourke
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
—Eleanor H. Porter