"To gain the frienship of a cat is a difficult thing. The cat is a philosophical, methodical, quiet animal, tenacious of it's own habits, fond of order and cleanliness, and it does not lightly confer its friendship. If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave. He keeps his free will, though he loves, and he will not do for you what he thinks is unreasonable. But if he once gives himself to you it is with absolute confidence and affection!"
-unknown

My love she is a kitten, and my heart's a ball a string.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?
-Fernand Mery


Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
-Garrison Keillor

God gave man the cat in order that he might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
-unknown

They are mystery incarnate
These ethereal companions by our side.
Though ever independent, never fully known,
We are blessed to receive these envoys
Of the magic Tiger Tribe.
-unknown

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hadn't heard.
-Mary Sarton

It is needless to spend any time over her loving nature to man, how she flattereth by rubbing her skin against one's legs, how she whurleth with her voice, having as many tunes at turnes, for she hath one voice to beg and to complain, another to testify her delight and pleasure, another among her own kind by flattering, by hissing, by puffing, by spitting, in so much that some have thought that they have a peculiar intelligible
language among themselves.

-Edward Topsell

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-Joseph Krutch

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
-Montaigne

If a cat spoke, it would say things like "Hey, I don't see the problem here."
-Roy Blount, Jr.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
--Monica Edwards

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
- Irving Townsend

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.
-Anonymous

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
- Arthur Weigall

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
- Colette

A cat may look at a king
-old adage




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