"If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich."

~African Proverb~

"There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comical."

~Monica Edwards~

"The most domesticated of cats somehow contrives to lead an outside life of its own."

-Katharine Briggs

"Observe a cat entering a room for the first time: it searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"It is with the approach of winter that cats become in an especial manner our friends and guests. They sit in out chimney-corners, watch with us the dancing flames, and dream with us vague dreams, misty and melancholy as the deepening dusk. It is then, too, that they wear their richest fur, and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence."

~Pierre Loti~

"Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body."

Erma Bombeck

"A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather."

Judith Merkle Riley

"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."

-Champfleury

"I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted-but his or her entertainment value."

-Geoffrey Household

"Silently she leaps

and walks

All night upon a narrow

rafter,

Whence at intervals

she talks

Wise to them she

watches after."

-Mark Van Doren-

"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."

~Eleanor Farjeon~

"A dog looks at you and says, 'You take care of me. You must be a god.' A cat looks at you and says, 'You give me food and shelter. I must be a god.'"

-Alan Beck