Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Cats Quotes
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.
May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep.
A cat is never vulgar.
I once had a beautiful kitten, With beautiful ears and pink nose, But alas from a kit to a tomcat With terrible swiftness it grows, I ponder now hour upon hour, As my beautiful kitten grows fat, He was awfully cute as a kitten, But I hadn’t arranged for a cat.
I love cats, but I can never eat a whole one.
Remember the cat who discovered happiness was in its tail. He could never catch it, but when he ignored it, it followed him everywhere.
If there was any petting to be done, he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
It’s always darkest before you step on the cat.
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementally adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it’s their suppertime. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.