"Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated...Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries. --Lesley Anne Ivory"

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it.' --Dilys Laing"

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. --Sir Walter Scott"

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. --Jules Verne"

"Nothing is so difficult as to paint the cat's face, which as Moncrif justly observes bears a character of finesse and hilarity. The lines are so delicate, the eyes so strange, the movements subject to such sudden impulses, that one should be feline oneself to portray such a subject. --Jules Champfleury"

"Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. --Ralph Waldo Emerson"

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. --Unknown"

"With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? --Fernand Mery"

"Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the contemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. --Andrew Lang"

"The cat laps moonbeams in the bowl of water, thinking them to be milk.--Hindu Proverb"

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

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. --Warren Eckstein"

"No Heaven will ever Heaven be, Unless my cats are there to welcome me. --Anonymous "

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. --Missy Dizick"

"Dynasties of cats, as numerous as the dynasties of the Pharaohs, succeed each other under my roof. The memory of the cats we have lost fades like the memory of men. --Theophile Gautier"

"The catlike man is one upon whom no tricks can be played with success. --Delphine Gay"

"It depends on what is in my house. If there was a cat, and my works, I would save the cat. A cat's life is more important than art. --Alberto Giacometti [when asked which of his sculptures he would rescue from a fire]"

"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard cats. --Anonymous"

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. --James Gorman"

"A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. --Jules Champfleury"

"When you come upon your cat, deep in meditation, staring thoughtfully at something that you can't see, just remember that your cat is, in fact, running the universe. --Bonni Elizabeth Hall (and Missycat)"

"Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to skin - or skin to fur. --Paul Gallico"

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. --Mark Twain"

"Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog, which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail, spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample material for interpretation. --Philippe Diolé"

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

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. --Dereke Rita"

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.--Charlotte Gray"

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. --Jules Reynard"

"The visionary chooses a cat; the man of concrete a dog. Hamlet must have kept a cat. Platonists, or cat lovers, include sailors, painters, poets, and pickpockets. Aristotelians, or dog lovers, include soldiers, football players, and burglars. --Anonymous"

"The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.--Lawrence N. Johnson"

"May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep. --Anonymous"

"A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. --Jules Verne"

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. --Robert A. Heinlein"

"The cat is the mirror of his human's mind… the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance. --Winifred Carriere"

"To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. --Anonymous"

"If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time... --Jules Champfleury"

"One day a cat will opt to join you while you are utterly relaxed in muscle and brain, and with delicate miaow and a velvet paw will show you transcendental meditation by an expert. --V. Martin"

"As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. --Carl Van Vechten"

"I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely and snugly encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisified--so complacent. --Mary Morrow Lindbergh"

"It is in their eyes that their magic resides. --Arthur Symons"

"Cats are not impure; they keep watch about us. --The Prophet Mohammed"

"He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. --Margaret Benson"

"His amiable amber eyes, Are very friendly, very wise; Like Buddha, grave and fat, He sits, regardless of applause, And thinking, as he kneads his paws, What fun to be a cat! --Christopher Morley"

"A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world. --Irish Legend"

"I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. --R.H. Blyth"

"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? --Eleanor H. Porter"

"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. --Sir Compton Mackenzie"

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

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