If you tell a lie — tell a big one. Joespeh Goebbels

“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?” Death thought about it. “Cats,” he said eventually. “Cats are nice.” Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat. S. S. Biddle

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. Gregory Macguire, Wicked

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal–or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. Elizabeth Peters

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayna

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back. David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch, Twelve Seasons