His friendship is not easily won but is something worth having.
-Michael Joseph

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
-Agnes Repplier

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality.
-Lilian Jackson Braun

He lives in the half-lights in secret places, free and alone - this mysterious little-great being whom his mistress calls "My cat."

-Margaret Benson

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

A sleeping cat is ever alert.
-Fred Schwab

The only mystery about the cat is why is ever decided to become a domestic animal.
-Sir Compton Mackenzie

The cat, like the genius, draws into itself as into a shell except in the atmosphere of congeniality, and this is the secret of its remarkable and elusive personality.

-Ida M. Mellen

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
-William Conway

In Egypt, the cats... afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.
-Aelian

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.
-Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

-Leonardo Da Vinci

 

 

 

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