Cat Quotables-Subtle Air

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

-Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

Cat Quotables-Coming Home

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

-Pam Brown

Cat Quotables-Pygmy Lion

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

-Oliver Herford

Cat Quotables-Slip Through Loopholes

Cats, no less liquid then their shadows,

Offer no angles to the wind.

They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes

Less than themselves.

-A. S. J. Tessimond (1902-1962)