Few animals exhibit more maternal tenderness, or show a greater love for their offspring, than the cat.
-Rev. W. Bingley

It seems that when man has considered himself to be the master of all things, the cat has been shunned and feared, being visible evidence that man could not control everything. On the other hand, when man acknowledged the power of unknown and mysterious forces, then the cat was respected and accepted as an equal.
-H. L. Cooke

He was sitting in front of the door. It is a known fact that if one sits long enough in front of the door, doing the proper yoga exercises, the door will open.
-May Sarton

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

-Jules Reynard

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
-Ernest Menault

Cats talk with their tails.
-Cleveland Amory

The tail in cats is the principal organ of emotional expression.
-Aldous Huxley

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

-Albert Schweitzer

A morning kiss, a discreet touch of his nose landing somewhere on the middle of my face. Because his long white whiskers tickled I began every day laughing.
-Janet F. Faure

What does it mean to love an animal, a pet, in my case a cat, in the fierce, entire and unambivalent way that some of us do? I really want to know this. Does the cat (did the cat) represent some person, a parent or a child? Some part of one's self? I don't think so- and none of the words or phrases that one uses for human connections sounds quite right: "crazy about," "really liked," "very fond of"- none of those describes how I felt and still feel about my cat.
-Alice Adams

I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.
-A. L. Rowse

For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good cat.

-Christopher Smart

 

 

 

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