National Cat Day 2016 Quotes And Photos: 18 Sayings Celebrating Your Favorite Felines

Forget Halloween — this weekend's biggest celebration is National Cat Day.

Held on Saturday, National Cat Day is not only a chance to honor your feline friends but also an opportunity to spread awareness about cat adoption. On its website, National Cat Day creator Colleen Paige suggests observing the holiday by giving food to animal welfare groups, purchasing new toys for your pet or dressing up as a cat.

You can also celebrate by sharing cat quotes with your friends. Here are 18 sayings about your favorite felines, collected from Goodreads, BrainyQuote, Quote Garden and CatTime.com:

"Time spent with a cat is never wasted." — Colette

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats." — Albert Schweitzer

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty. Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." — Ernest Hemingway

"Never try to out-stubborn a cat." — Robert A. Heinlein

"Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off." — Michael Nelson

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods." — Christopher Hitchens

"I've always been mad about cats." — Vivien Leigh

"You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense." — Jane Pauley

"I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human." — L.M. Montgomery

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." — Hippolyte Taine

"Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time." — Seanan McGuire

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." — Terry Pratchett

"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." — Alfred North Whitehead

"My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance." — William S. Burroughs

"Cats have it all — admiration, an endless sleep and company only when they want it." — Rod McKuen

"Kittens can happen to anyone." — Paul Gallico

"Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know." — Charles Bukowski

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr." — Martin Buxbaum