"I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts." George Freedley
You are my cat and I am your human." Hilaire Belloc
Cats everywhere asleep on the shelves like motorized bookends." Audrey Thomas
Cats do not declare their love much; they enact it, by their myriad invocations of our pleasure ..." Vicki Hearne
A cat may look at a king." English Proverb
The tail, of course, must come forward until it reaches the front paws. Only an inexperienced kitten would let it dangle." Lloyd Alexander
"To a cat, all things belong to the cat." English Proverb
"A cat is a poem."Jean Burden
"Even if you have just destroyed a Ming vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven." Lenny Rubenstein
"Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one." Thomas Fuller
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird and a cat is a person." Mugsy Peabody
"But the kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws and darts!" Willliam Wordsworth
"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr." Lewis Carroll
"I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementally adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their suppertime. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes." Sylvia Townsend Warner
The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT. - Ogden
"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls." --Eric Gurney
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense." - Erasmus Darwin
Who hath a better friend than a cat? William Hardwin
"Cats don't like change without their consent." - Roger A. Caras
"The cat has to much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menault
"Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
"My pretty cat to my heart I hold."
"But still I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." Rudyard Kipling
"Birman, Birman burning Bright! In the jungles of the Night!" Kim Crow Strouble ( Mrs. CatmanDrew, with apologies to the author)
Cat dreams of tall grass and mousies that creep ... Don't ask what cats dream while we are asleep!" Kim Crow Strouble (Mrs. CatmanDrew)
"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." Jules Reynard
"... stretches from one end of my childhood to the other." Blaga Dimitrova
Are we men - or arre we mice?" Sylvester, 'Kitty Kornered,' 1946
I don't need a Tranquility Garden: I take care of four litter boxes." Drew Strouble
"I would love to be a cat in my own house!" Drew Strouble
posted by: Sim (reply)
post date: 07.26.05 (3:55 am)
I still hate cats.
posted by: Black_Rose (reply)
post date: 07.27.05 (2:08 am)
cute smart cats
posted by: VodkaB (reply)
post date: 07.27.05 (6:07 am)
Reply to: Sim
Tsk
posted by: VodkaB (reply)
post date: 07.27.05 (6:07 am)
