On Cats

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. [TOP]

Mary Bly
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. [TOP]

Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849
The Black Cat
There is something about the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man. [TOP]

Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. [TOP]

Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970
The Twelve Seasons
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. [TOP]

John Heywood, 1497?-?1580
A cat may look at a king. [TOP]

David J. Irvine
Man’s pet, the kitten, lives nine lives;
Man, one: three score and ten.
Man claims the ownership of earth,
Of every glebe and glen.
What modest claim do kittens make?
The ownership of men. [TOP]

English Saying
In a cat’s eyes, all things belong to cats.

Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864
Imaginary Conversations
Cats, like men, are flatterers. [TOP]

Stevie Smith, 1902-
The Singing Cat
He lifteth up his innocent voice
He lifteth up, he singeth,
And all the people warm themselves
In the love his beauty bringeth. [TOP]

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