"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern
of subtle air.”
-Doris Lessing
"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her
preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
-Leonore Fleisher
"Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes,
you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas,
with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who hath a better friend than a cat?"
-William Hardwin
"Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?”
-Elizabeth Hamilton "A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder
and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the
pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal."
-Agnes Repplier
"Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort."
-Leigh Hunt
"All cats love a cushioned couch."
-Theocritus
"I was only a small child when the seeds of cat enchantment were sown within me."
-May Eustace
"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense."
-Erasmus Darwin "The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal."
-Sir Compton MacKenzie
"Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell
the people and the cats apart."
-P. J. O'Rourke
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
-George Eliot
"Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."
-Anonymous |
