“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
— Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
— Polymath Leonardo da Vinci

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
— French historian Hippolyte Taine

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
— Author Jules Verne

If man could be crossed with the cat,” he once wrote, “it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
-Writer Mark Twain

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
— Poet Pam Brown

