National Cat Day 2017 Quotes, Photos: 15 Sayings Celebrating Your Favorite Felines

Before you get ready to put on your cute cat costume for Halloween, get ready to observe the National Cat Day on Oct. 29.

It is an occasion to learn more about your favorite felines and maybe even adopt one from your nearest animal shelter! Another way to celebrate the occasion is to find out what the famous people had to say about the creature that is believed to have nine lives.

Here are 15 quotes from Cat Time and Brainy Quote that you can share with your friends on the special occasion.

“My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.” — American writer and artists William S. Burroughs

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” — French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau

“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” — American cartoonist Jim Davis

"Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men." — American author H. P. Lovecraft

“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” — Author Walter Lionel George

“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.” — English author and Anglican priest William Ralph Inge

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” — Author Ernest Hemingway

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such – American author H. P. Lovecraft

“Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.” — American political satirist and journalist P.J. O’Rourke

“Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.” — Actor James Mason

“Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — American writer, humorist, entrepreneur and publisher Mark Twain

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

“If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.” — English mathematician and philosopher A.N. Whitehead

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. – American writer of science fiction Andre Norton

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. — American author, reporter and commentator and animal rights activist Cleveland Amory