“There is something about the presence of a cat…
that seems to take the bite out of being alone.”
~ Louis J. Camuti
“When you believe there is no love in the world,
just gaze into the eyes of the cat in your lap.”
~ Old Welsh saying
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?”
~ Charles Dickens
“Who can believe that there is no soul
behind those luminous eyes!”
~ Theophile Gautier
“No matter how much cats fight,
there always seems to be plenty of kittens.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“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
“If animals could speak
the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow,
but the cat would have the rare grace
of never saying a word too much.”
~ Mark Twain
“I love cats because I love my home
and after a while they become its visible soul.”
~ Jean Cocteau
“One is never sure,
watching two cats washing each other,
whether it’s affection, the taste,
or a trial run for the jugular.”
~ Helen Thomson
” I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats.”
~ Eckhart Tolle!
“There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.”
~ Albert Schweitzer


