My Cats' Cove: Thought for the Week

What About Cats?

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more." - Agnes Repplier
"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals." - George Mikes
"Cats never run, they glide softly, and always with perfect and beautiful curves of motion; and they express their affection, not violently, like the dog, but with the most graceful, caressing movements of the head." - Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain
"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves." - Mary Wilkins Freeman
"There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat." - Monica Edwards
"One must love a cat on its own terms." - Peter Gray
"A cat refuses to be the object of sentimentality - if she doesn't want to be cuddled, that's it." - Samantha Armstrong
"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings." - William Ralph Inge