Cat Quotables-Cats and Writers

"Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance."

~Dan Greenburg

Cat Quotables-Respect the Cat

"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense."

~Erasmus Darwin

Cat Quotables-A Cat's Eye

"Someone had said that the pupil of the cat's eye marks the time: at midnight, noon, sunrise, and sunset, it is like a thread; at four o'clock and ten o'clock, morning and evening, it is round like a full moon; while at two o'clock and eight o'clock, morning and evening, it is elliptical like the kernel of a date."

~From an Ancient Chinese Text

Cat Quotables-We're All Mad

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

~The Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Cat Quotables-Domestic Cat

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."

~George F. Will

Cat Quotables-Caressing a Tiger

"God has created the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger."

~Theophile Gautier

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