"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat."
- Warren Eckstein
"A home without a cat- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
-Mark Twain Notebook, 1895
"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.