Little cat, are you as glad to have me to lie upon as I am to feel your fur under my hand? Amy Lowell The cat, being at best half but tame, forms a shadowing, or rather stands in a medium between domestic and wild animals. Georges Buffon Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminoue eyes! Theophile Gautier With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats? Fernand Mery Everything about a lion in its wild state is immediately recognizable from your own domestic cat; it has the same soft delayed tread across the grass, the same quick turning of its head to lick the fur on its shoulder, the twitching tail, the same terrible indifference. Alan Moorehead It starts with the big one, the main one, what you call the boss. Then it goes down from there. Leopards with spots, tiger with stripes, panther is black. All cats are the same, from mountain lion down to... (He indicates the white cat sleeping on a stack of quilts.) Navajo Elder The smallest feline is a masterpiece. Leonardo da Vinci A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. Anonymous Her function is to sit and be admired. Georgina Gates Lions are not animals alone; they are symbols and totems and legends; they have impressed themselves so deeply on the human mind, if not its blood, it is as though the psyche were emblazoned with their crest. Evelyn Ames