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Since Oct 18, 2011
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“To respect the cat is the beginning of the Aesthetic sense.”
— Erasmus Darwin
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci
“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.”
— George F. Will
“The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
— Jules Renard
“If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.”
— Barbara L. Diamond
“A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.”
— William Lyon Phelps
“Who among us hasn’t envied a cat’s ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
— Karen Brademeyer
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.”
— Jean Asper-McIntosh
“Subliminal kitty messages? “You are getting very sleepy” is not a command when said to a cat; it is an eternal truth.”
— Ari Ripkin
“A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.”
— Jules Champfleury
“He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.”
— Saki (H.H. Munro)
“Which is more beautiful: feline movement or feline stillness?”
— Elizabeth Hamilton
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
— James Herriot
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
— Carl Van Vechten
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
— Pam Brown
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
— Pam Brown
Cat’s motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
— unknown
People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
— Faith Resnick
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
— Ernest Menaul
God made the cat so that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
— Fernand Mery
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
— Mark Twain
There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
— unknown
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
— Andre Norton
Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.
— unknown
Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won’t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.
— Helen Powers
“There is indeed no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.”
— Carl Van Vechten