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There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat
just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his
comfort and convenience.
-Allen and Ivy Dodd
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence
keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but
deteriorate the cat.
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?
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a
diagram and pattern of subtle air.
-Doris Lessing
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown
cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and
designing and yet so richly comic.
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are
equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not
discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
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.
Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. 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
It is, of course, totally pointless to call a cat when it is intent on the
chase. They are deaf to the interruptive nonsense of humans. They are on
cat business, totally serious and involved.
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds
than we are aware of.
Give her but a wavering leaf-shadow of a breeze combing the grasses and she
was back a million years, glaring with night-lit eyes in the thickets, projecting a terrible aura of fear that stilled and quelled all creatures.
Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can
realize their sensitive nervous systems.
-Helen M. Winslow
-Carl Van Vechten
-Mark Twain
-Fernand Mery
-Monica Edwards
-Henry David Thoreau
-Agnes Repplier
-John D. MacDonald
-Sir Walter Scott
-Paul Annixter
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