In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, that cat walks with
confidence.
-Roseanne Amberson
Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat.
-Ancrene Riwle ("Nun's Rule," c.1200)
The cat is a guest and not a plaything.
-Colette
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive.
A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for
years on rainy days.
-Albert Einstein
She walks her chosen path by our side; but our ways are not her ways, our
influence does not remotely reach her.
-Agnes Repplier
Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into catloving families, some
achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them.
-William H. A. Carr
Alexander the Great, Napolean, and Hitler... were apparently terrified of
small felines... If you want to conquer the world you had better not share
even a moment with an animal that refuses to be conquered at any price, by
anyone.
-Desmond Morris
He would lie or sit with his whiskers to the North before noonday, and due
South afterwards. In general his manners were perfection. But occasionally
when she called him, his face would appear to knot itself into a frown - at
any rate to assume a low sullen look, as if he expostulated "Why must you be
interrupting me, Madam, when I am thinking of something else?"
-Walter De la Mare
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
-Jules Champfleury
There is no evidence that at any time during its history the cat's way of
life and its reception into human homesteads were purposely planned and
directed by humans, as was the case with all other domestic animals, at
least from a very early stage of their association... In other words, there
was no agent domesticating the cat besides the cat himself.
-Paul Leyhausen
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a
philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and
neatness and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend,
if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
-Theophile Gautier
Cats... can read your character better than a $50 an hour psychiatrist.
-Paul Gallico
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait,
both at home and on tour; has been compared to that of a man wading through
low surf.
-Roy Blount Jr.