I feel that Cats don't get the proper respect they should. It's hard being the Guardians of the Underworld, Kings of the Jungle -- AND the Pest Control.
"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." - Garrison Keillor
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier
"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." - Jules Reynard
"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish." - James Gorman
"A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan
"If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'" - Roy Blount, Jr.
"He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep." - Saki