My Beautiful Little Hannah
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.- Henry David Thoreau
I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing – or pretend to do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.”- Barbara Webster, from “Creatures and Contentments”
Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. – Charlotte Gray
If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.- Patricia Hitchcock
French novelist Colette was a firm cat-lover. When she was in the U.S. she saw a cat sitting in the street. She went over to talk to it and the two of them mewed at each other for a friendly minute. Colette turned to her companion and exclaimed, “Enfin! Quelqu’un qui parle francais.” (At last! Someone who speaks French!) – Anonymous
A cat isn’t fussy – just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.”- Arthur Bridges
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. – Pam Brown
To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique. – Jenny de Vries
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.- Allen and Ivy Dodd
Places to look: behind the books in the bookshelf, any cupboard with a gap too small for any cat to squeeze through, the top of anything sheer, under anything too low for a cat to squash under and inside the piano. – Roseanne Ambrose-Brown
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
Cats like doors left open–in case they change their minds.- Rosemary Nisbet
f the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company.- Lloyd Alexander
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. – Paul Gray
To err is human, to purr is feline. – Robert Byrne
A cat is there when you call her – if she doesn’t have something better to do.- Bill Adler
Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?- Robert Stearns
A cat can purr its way out of anything.- Donna McCrohan
Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. – Mark Twain
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. – Jeff Valdez
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. – Dan Greenberg
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.- Hazel Nicholson
Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.- Hank Ketchum
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.- Mugsy Peabody
Some cats is blind, And stone-deaf some, But ain’t no cat Wuz ever dumb.- Anthony Euwer
The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle.”- Roseanne Ambrose Brown
Poets generally love cats–because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.”- Marion Garretty
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.- Paul Gallico, from “An Honourable Cat”
If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him. – Anonymous
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. – Colette
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.- Jules Reynard
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.- Nan Porter
Every life should have nine cats. – Anonymous
Dogs eat. Cats dine. – Ann Taylor
You are my cat and I am your human. – Hilaire Belloc
I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine
