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.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

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.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I've always been mad about cats.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

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

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

All cats are grey in the dark.

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

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

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

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.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.