Because of our willingness to accept cats are superhuman creatures, they are the ideal creatures with which to work creatively.
-Roni Schotter

You can never accuse him of idleness, and yet he knew the secret of epose.
-Charles Dudley Warner

Cats everywhere asleep on the shelves like motorized bookends.
-Audrey Thomas

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

-Theophile Gautier

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

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

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

A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

–Champfleury

The tail, of course must come forward until it reaches the front paws. Only an inexperienced kitten would let it dangle.
-Lloyd Alexander

If he had asked to have the door opened, and was eager to go out, he always went deliberately. I can see him now, standing on the sill, looking about at the sky as if he was thinking whether it were worth while to take an umbrella.
-Margaret Benson

For push of nose, for perseverance, there is nothing to beat a cat.
-Emily Carr

The cat is never vulgar.

Carl Van Vechten

 

 

 

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