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| "I believe cats to be
spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a
cloud without coming through." -- Jules Verne |
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| "The city of cats and
the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same
city." -- Italo Calvino |
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| "A dog, I have always
said, is prose; a cat is a poem." -- Jean Burden
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| "God made the cat in
order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
-- Fernand Mery
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| "When I play with my
cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?" --
Michel de Montaigne |
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| "The cat has too much
spirit to have no heart." -- Ernest Menaul |
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| "As every cat owner
knows, nobody owns a cat." -- Ellen Perry Berkeley |
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| "One reason we admire
cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to
come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do." --
Barbara Webster |
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| "Of all God's creatures
there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with
the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." --
Mark Twain |
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| "No matter how much cats
fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." -- Abraham Lincoln |
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| "I wish I could write as
mysterious as a cat." -- Edgar Allan Poe. |
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| "What greater gift than
the love of a cat." -- Charles Dickens. |
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"A cat has absolute honesty." -- Ernest Hemingway
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| "Cats are mysterious
kind of folk; there is more passing in their minds than we are aware
of." -- Sir Walter Scott
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| "The smallest feline is
a masterpiece." Leonardo da Vinci
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| "I have studied many
philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
-- Hippolyte Taine
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| "The cat is above all
things, a dramatist." -- Margaret Benson
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| "Cats as a class, have
never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in
Ancient Egypt they were worshiped as gods." -- P.G. Wodehouse
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| "Ignorant people think
it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it
ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use." -- Mark Twain
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| "If purring could be
encapsulated, it'd be the most powerful anti-depressant on the
pharmaceutical market." -- Alexis F. Hope
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| "Who among us hasn't
envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax
completely?" -- Karen Brademeyer
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"Before a cat will
condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream."
-- T.S. Eliot
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| "You can keep a dog; but
it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful
domestic animals." -- George Mikes
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| Cat: A pygmy lion who
loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ~~Oliver Herford
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| Cats are smarter than
dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~~Jeff
Valdez
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| "If a dog jumps in 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
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| "Women and cats will do
as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the
idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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| An army of sheep led by
a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. --Arab Proverb
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| Cat's motto: No matter
what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did
it." -- Unknown
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"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and
courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of
becoming cats?" -- Fernand Mery
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Mysterious,
sophisticated, tender, gentle and sweet are but a few words to
encompass what all the sayings above have uttered about cats.
If you have one, you know better!
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