Pussycats

Quotes from a picture book given as a gift to me by another cat, Russ, whose dedication goes: "Replace every 'cat' with your name."

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A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. - Robert Lynd

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality. - Lilian Jackson Braun

His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having. - Michael Joseph

To get on with animals you must have a sense of humor. - "Saki" (Hector Hugh Munro)

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English proverb

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their mind than we are aware of. - Sir Walter Scott

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. - Colonial American Proverb

A cat is more intelligent that people believe, and can be taught any crime. - Mark Twain

The most unsociable cat, when it finds itself wrapped up in someone's coat and put to sleep upon his bed -- stroked, fed, and tended with every imaginable care -- soon ceases to stand upon its dignity. -- Murasaki Shikibu

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. -- John Digman

He lives in the half-lights in secret places, free and alone -- this mysterious little-great being whom his mistress calls "My cat." - Margaret Benson

Cats allow us to love them, for which we should be duly grateful. - Anne Taylor Brown

Cats use their voices much as a means of expression. - Charles Darwin

My cat is a lion in a junlge of small bushes. - English proverb

Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you can't catch them at it. - Anonymous

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly

The cat is domestic only as fas as it suits its own ends. - "Saki" (Hector Hugh Munro)

Cats consider theft a game; And whosoever you may blame refuse the slightest sign of shame. - Anonymous

A cat's a cat and that's that. -- American Folk Saying