The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. Georges de Buffon Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. Jim Davis Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Sir Walter Scott The cheetah is a glorious hunter- in that flash of spotted gold, one sees an animal performing what it has evolved for thousands of years to do so well, and somehow in that moment it is in essence the logical conclusion of natural selection. Cynthia Moss For he is of the tribe of Tiger. For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger. Christopher Smart Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the Holy Circle, thou art indeed... the Great Cat. Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes If a cat dies in a private house by a natural death (in ancient Egypt), all the inmates of the house shave their eyebrows;... Herodotus Save me from the lion's mouth.. Psalm 21 It is most certain, that the breath and favour of Cats consume the radical humour and destroy the lungs, and therefor they which keep their Cats with them in their beds have the air corrupted, and fall into severall Hecticks and Consumptions. Edward Topsell (1607) But one thing I dare well say that if any beast has the devil's spirit in him, without doubt it is the cat, both wild and the tame. Gaston Phoebus (c 1391)