One hill cannot shelter two tigers.
Indian Proverb

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Aldous Huxley

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.
Mugsy Peabody

A cat is there when you call her-- if she doesn't have something better to do.
Bill Adler

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
Vakaoka Genrin

...These Lionesses are very lecherous, and this is the cause that the Lions are so fell and cruell.
Pliny (1st Century A.D.)

We cannot, without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.
St George Mivart

Many cats, when they are Out want to be in, and vice versa, often simultaneously.
Dr Louis Camuti

..the adults, however, acquire a dignified demeanour...Some writer has described the lion's assumption of gaiety as more grim than its most serious moods.
W H Hudson (1892)

If he had asked to have the door opened, and was eager to go out, he always went out deliberately. I can see him now, standing on the sill, looking about the sky as if he was thinking whether it were worth while to take an umbrella, until he was near to having his tail shut in.
Charles Warner



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