Cat Musings

	Cat Musings (Notable Cat Quotes)

"A kitten is a delight of the household. All day long a comedy is played out by an imcomparable actor."
	CHAMPFLEURY (1821 - 1899)

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
	LEONARDO DA VINCI

"A kitten with a length of string Is such a pretty, playful thing. A kitten with a leaf to chase Exhibits beauty, form and grace. But I love kittens curled up, wise, With ancient mystery in their eyes."
	SALVATORE MARSIGLIA

"I wish she wouldn't ask me if I love the kitten more than her. Of course I love her - But I love the kitten too, And it has fur..."
	ANONYMOUS

"I like pussy, her coat is so warm, And if I don't harm her, she'll do me no harm. So I'll not pull her tail, nor drive her away, But pussy and I very gently will play.'"
	SOURCE UNKNOWN, c.1843

"Dogs will play football, walk a tightrope, and do backflips; bears will roller-skate or ride seesaws, and seals render "My Country Tis of Thee" on a bank of tooters, but your pet cat won't even come when you call it if it doesn't feel like it or doesn't think there might be something in it for itself."
	PAUL GALLICO (1896 - 1976)

"A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world."
	IRISH LEGEND

"The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence."
	EDWARD PALEY (1786 - 1847)

"When a cat is offended every square centimetre of him is offended. Men and women of power have been brought to their knees by cats who have turned their backs on them."
	A. P. REILLY

"Sunday, January 27 1884 - There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left on to the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own."
	BEATRIX POTTER (1966 - 1943)

"Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair, Top of piano, window-ledge, In the middle, on the edge, Open drawer, empty shoe, Anybody's lap will do, Fitted in a carboard box, In the cupboard, with your frocks, Anywhere! They don't care! Cats sleep Anywhere."
	ELEANOR FARJEON (1881-1965)

"Dogs live with you, cats board with you."
	PAM BROWN, b. 1928

"Humans have remade dogs to suit their own ends. Cats are exactly the same as they were ten thousand years ago."
	MARION C. GARRETTY, b, 1917

"A cat is only technically an animal, being devine."
	ROBERT LYND (1879 - 1949)

"Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods."
	P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881 - 1975)

"In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were executed for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closet friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows."
	ROGER A. CARAS

"Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is reinforcement of something we would all like to believe about ourselves - that we are nice."
	ROGER CARAS

"Cats sleep fat and walk thin."
	ROSALIE MOORE, FROM "CATALOGUE"

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."
	DORIS LESSING, b. 1919

"Chinese parents used to embroider a cat's head on the shoes of a baby learning to walk, to make it surefooted."
	ISHA MELLOR

"The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars."
	VITA SACKVILLE-WEST (1892 - 1962)

"CAT: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."
	THEOPHILE GAUTIER (1811-1872)

"Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave."
	RUDYARD KIPLING (1865 - 1936)

"Hear our prayer, Lord, for all animals, may they be well-fed and well-treated and happy. Protect them from hunger and fear and suffering. And we pray, protect specially, dear Lord, the little cat who is the companion of our home, keep her safe as she goes abroad, and bring her back to comfort us."
	AN OLD RUSSIAN PRAYER

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
	PAM BROWN

"Once it has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you."
	THEOPHILE GAUTIER

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
	GEORGE F. WILL

"Dozing, all cats assume the svelte design of desert sphyinxes sprawled in solitude, apparently transfixed by endless dreams."
	CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, CATS, 1857

An old Middle-Eastern legend says that once, Mohammed was called to prayer, but his beloved cat was sleeping on his sleeve. Not wanting to disturb his cat, he cut off the sleeve of his robe and went to pray. Upon returning, the cat bowed in gratitude. As a reward, Muhammed granted cats the ability to always land on their feet.


"The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extraordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared."
	FRANCIS GALTON, INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN FACULTY, 1883

"Wanton kitlins may make sober old cats."
	THOMAS FULLER, GNOMONOLOGIA, 1732

"Pet was never mourned as you Purrer of the spotless hue, Plumy tail, and wistful gaze, While you humoured our queer ways."
	THOMAS HARDY, LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND, 1925

"But the kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws and darts! First at one and then its fellow, Just as light as just as yellow."
	WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES, 1804

"Cats seem to go on the principle that is never does any harm to ask for what you want."
	JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

"A cat can lie softly in absolute comfort on the most unforgiving of surfaces."
	THEOCRITUS, IDYLS XV, c. 270 BC

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
	GARRISON KEILLOR

"A cat has emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
	ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat."
	MATTHEW ARNOLD, POOR MATTHIAS, 1885

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am with her?"
	MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE, ESSAIS, 1571

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff."
	UNKNOWN




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