Motto: Momma loves morals and Papa loves cats. - Susy Clemens (daughter of Mark Twain)

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. - Mark Twain who was a passionate lover of cats...

Next to a wife whom I idolise, give me a cat - an old cat, with kittens. - Mark Twain in a letter to Olivia Clemens

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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 its title?

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward - you will never get her full confidence again.

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

Never try to teach a cat to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the cat.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

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