A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
Proverb
Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Proverb
The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
Proverb
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
Joseph Epstein
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Mark Twain
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse
German Proverb
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals
George Mikes
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties.
W. L. George
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine