Eight quotes about cats

I will make a gift for thee out of the smoke and the flame and the stars", said the magician. And he took a handful of smoke and a flame of fire and two bright stars, and... made a little live creature, soft and grey like the smoke, with bright, star-like eyes and with a little red tongue like a tiny flame of fire. It danced and capered about, and was a joy to look upon.
--Rose Fyleman

The cat, in dignity and independence, is very much like the human animal should be but isn't.
--Paul Corey

Give her but a wavering leaf-shadow of a breeze combing the grasses and she was back a million years, glaring with night-lit eyes in the thickets, projecting a terrible aura of fear that stilled and quelled all creatures.
--Paul Annixter

The white cat moon devours the grey mice of twilight.
--Ancient Sanskrit manuscript

With dogs and people it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat you're dealing in pastels.
--Dr. Louis J Camuti, veterinarian

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
--Monica Edwards

Cats remind us of our better selves, the cool, collected, confident and coordinated people who exist mostly in our imaginations.
--Jean-Claude Suares

In these days of tension, human beings can learn a great deal about relaxation from watching a cat, who doesn't just lie down when it is time to rest, but pours his body on the floor and rests in every nerve and muscle.
--Murray Robinson