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A cat is judged in the "Longhair Pedigree Pet Imperial Grand Master Cat" class at the 42nd "Supreme Cat Show" organised by the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy and held in the NEC, Birmingham, central England, Oct. 27, 2018. OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images

Every year, United States celebrates Oct. 29 as National Cat Day. The day was started in 2005 by animal welfare advocate Colleen Paige with an intention to not only honor the feline friends but also to spread awareness about cat adoption.

Here are 15 quotes about felines from Good Reads and Cat Times:

1. "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." — H. P. Lovecraft

2. "Cats are anthropomorphized in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them." — Jim Davis

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

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

5. "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

6. "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

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

8. “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.” — Mark Twain

9. “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.” — Cleveland Amory

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

11. "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

12. “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.” –Andre Norton

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

14. “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

15. “I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character.” — P.C. Cast

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