"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

"The cat could very well be man's best friend, but he would never stoop to admit it."

-Doug Larson

"Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves."

-A. S. J. Tessimond

"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!"

~Barbara Webster~

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."

~Abraham Lincoln~

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

*~*~*Mark Twain*~*~*

"Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment."

~Paul Gallico~

"Kitten are born with their eyes shut. The open then in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives."

~Stephen Baker~