Perhaps God made cats so that man might have the pleasure of fondling the tiger.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
The kitten has a luxurious, Bohemian, unpuritanical nature. It eats six meals a day, plays furiously with a toy mouse and a piece of rope, and suddenly falls into a deep sleep whenever the fit takes it. It never feels the necessity to do anything to justify its existence; it does not want to be a Good Citizen; it has never heard of Service. It knows that it is beautiful and delightful, and it considers that a sufficient contribution to the general good. And in return for its beauty and charm it expects fish, meat, and vegetables, a comfortable bed, a chair by the grate fire, and endless petting.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
- Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
- Offer no angles to the wind.
- They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
- Less than themselves.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.
- The trouble with a kitten is
- That
- Eventually it becomes a
- Cat.
OGDEN NASH, "The Kitten," The Face Is Familiar
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
CAMILLE PAGLIA, Sexual Personae
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, The Twelve Seasons
Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself."
RUDYARD KIPLING, Just So Stories
If the cat waits for long hours, silent beside the crack of the wainscot, it is for pure pleasure. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.
OSWALD BARRON, as quoted in The Quotable Cat Lover
A cat is not merely diverted by everything that moves, but is convinced that all nature is occupied exclusively with catering to her diversion.
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE PARADIS DE MONCRIF, as quoted in Agnes Repplier's The Fireside Sphinx
One cat just leads to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, as quoted in Louis G. Morton's E-mail Humor
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.
CLEVELAND AMORY, The Cat Who Came for Christmas
Oft in the stilly night, certain back fence melodies convince us that old Noah made a grave mistake when he let more than one cat in the ark.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs
Dogs have Masters. Cats have staff.
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