When all candles bee out, all cats be gray.

John Heywood , 16th Century

Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I've been up to London to look at the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under the chair.

'Songs for the nursery, 1805'

The Cheshire Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone...

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want..

Joseph Wood Krutch

One cat just leads to another..

Ernest Hemingway

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats..

Albert Schweitzer

Cats aren't clean - they're just covered in cat spit

John S. Nichols

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function..

Unknown

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

Dogs come when they're called: Cats take a message get back to you later..

Mary Bly

A cat's skull is the hand's balm,
a shape made for the human palm,
a curve for which the hand has craved,
beyond the flesh of ladies laved
with sun and air, but bare of fur.
For fur,like hair, will dare the grave
and cushion bone when flesh is gone....

from Cat's Skull, by Jessamyn West