Cat Quotables-Hunting

"I and Pangur Ban, my cat,

'Tis a like task we are at.

Hunting mice is his delight,

Hunting words I sit all night."

~8th Century Irish scholar

Cat Quotables-An Inconvenient Habit

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr."

~Lewis Carroll

Cat Quotables-Richer

"By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer."

~Colette

Cat Quotables-Old Cat

"Arise from sleep, old cat,

And with great yawns and stretchings...

Amble out for love."

~Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku

Cat Quotables-Psychic Companions

"I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."

~William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

Cat Quotables-Plenty of Kittens

"No matter how much the cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

~Abraham Lincoln

Cat Quotables-Mysterious

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk."

~Walter Scott