No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussy-cat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.
-Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For every house is imcompleat without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
-Christopher Smart

What fun to be a cat!
-Christopher Morley

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

-Lilian Jackson Braun

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.
-Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
-Emile-August Chartier

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
-Ernest Hemingway

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

-Jean Cocteau

A cat is utterly sincere.
-Fernand Mery

A cat improves the garden wall in the sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
-Judith Merkle Riley

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest. For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
-Christopher Smart

Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed... the Great Cat.

-Inscription on the royal tombs at Thebes

 

 

 

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