The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home on the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
P G Wodehouse

Cats may be insecure deep down, but they never let you see it. I always love their air. They're like the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
Barney Martin

There was a sound between them. A warm and contented sound like the murmur of giant bees in a hollow tree.
Stephen Vincent Benet

It is bred and is an Inhabitant of almost all Countries in the World, all Cats were at first wild, but were at length tamed by the industry of Mankind; it is a Beast of prey, even the tame one, more especially in the wild, it being in the opinion of many nothing but a diminuitive Lyon.
William Salmon (1693)

There are certain things in Nature in which beauty and utility, artistic and technical perfection, combine in some incomprehensible way, the web of a spider, the wing of a dragon-fly, the superbly streamlined body of the porpoise, and the movements of a cat.
Konrad Lorenz

Can the leopard change his spots?
Book of Jeremiah

The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn't been peppered!
Ogden Nash

All you have to remember is Rule 1: when in doubt-- Wash.
Paul Gallico

He shut his eyes while Saha (the cat) kept vigil, watching all the invisible signs that hover over sleeping human beings when the light is put out.
Colette



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