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Thursday, January 27, 2005

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JIm Fiebig:
You own a dog; you feed a cat.

W. C. Fields:
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Lenore Fleischer:
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed - she brings to you the
gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice,
the touch of your hand.

Dr. Bruce Fogle:
While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would
be yowling its head off.

François Fossier:
Cats are forever.

Michael W. Fox, DVM:
They purr to signal a relaxed mood, And their purring may also help relax
them and those around them who feel and hear their purring - like getting a
nice massage in sound.

Benjamin Franklin:
The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Thomas Fuller:
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one.

James Gallagher:
I can see stopping a car for a dog. But a cat? You squish a cat and go on.

Mavis Gallant:
"What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know
" "They don't care i you like them. They haven't the slightest notion of
gratitude, and they never pretend. They take what you have to offer, and
away they go."

Paul Gallico:
I think of a woman as something like myself.
[translating from cat language]

All you have to remember is Rule 1: When in doubt - wash.

Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur, skin to
skin - or skin to fur.

Francis Galton:
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal.

Michelle Gardner:
Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple
little things, and I love cats!

Georgina Strickland Gates:
Her function is to sit and be admired.

Theophile Gautier:
The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Dynasties of cats, as numerous as the dynasties of the Pharaohs, succeed
each other under my roof. The memory of the cats we have lost fades like the
memory of men.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so
gentle and caressing that the depth of this gaze startles you. Who can
believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal,
tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to
extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of
friendship, but not your slave. He keeps his free will though he loves, and
will not do for you what he thinks unreasonable; but if he once gives
himself to you, it is with absolute confidence and fidelity of affection.

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

Delphine Gay:
The catlike man is one upon whom no tricks can be played with success.

W. L. George:
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and
love without penalties.

Alberto Giacometti:
It depends on what is in my house. If there was a cat, and my works, I would
save the cat. A cat's life is more important than art.
[when asked which of his sculptures he would rescue from a fire]

Rumer Godden:
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is
written...She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they
were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem
hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of
kittens as I am involved with other writing.

Bill Goldberg:
These guys [his cats Curly, Larry and Moe] entertain, love and are always
there for me. I can never express how much I care for these three. All of my
cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know
where I would be without them.

James Gorman:
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they
spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal
grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or
feathers - they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the
great evolutionary drama, the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

Bruce Graham:
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on
your computer.

Charlotte Gray:
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly
suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Paul Gray:
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were
created to serve man.

Patricia Dale Green:
Cats have always been associated with the Moon. Like the Moon, they come to
life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with
their eyes beaming out through the darkness.

Dan Greenberg:
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come
off as a sane person.

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

Gilbert Gude:
Maybe in the future we should add one more question to those we ask of
presidential candidates - we should ask them where they stand on cats.
Better still, we should demand to see the cats these candidates say they
have raised, just to make sure we are not having the fur pulled over our
eyes.

Eric Gurney:
The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a
cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color scheme, income, personality, mood
But under the fur; whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially
unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

Bonni Elizabeth Hall (and Missycat):
When you come upon your cat, deep in meditation, staring thoughtfully at
something that you can't see, just remember that your cat is, in fact,
running the universe.

Elizabeth Hamilton:
Which is the more beautiful, feline movement or feline stillness?

Gail Hamilton:
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Terri L. Haney:
Apparently, through scientific research, it has been determined that a cat's
affection gland is stimulated by snoring, thus explaining my cat's
uncontrollable urge to rub against my face at 2 a.m.

Okay, cats will never bring you pictures they've drawn in school, but they
may give you a dead mouse. What parent could resist that gift?

Vicki Hearne:
Cats do not declare their love much; they enact it, by their myriad
invocations of our pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein:
How we behave towards cats here below determines out status in heaven.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get
used to the idea.

Dorothy Heller:
No catnip tree
Could offer bliss
Of magnitude
To equal this
As in a transport
Of delight
My spaced-out cougar
Spends the night
His nose in cozy
Rendezvous
With my malodorous
Jogging shoe.

Ernest Hemingway:
One cat just leads to another.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or
another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Tay Hohoff:
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Barbara Holland:
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't
need one!

Lynn Hollyn:
Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.

If left to their own devices, felines tend to nap and nibble throughout the
day and night, scarcely differentiating between the two.

Geoffrey Household:
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the
ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her
entertainment value.

Mildred R. Howland:
In his castle
He is King
And I his vassal.

Aldous Huxley:
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the
best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

J. K. Huysmans:
In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for
their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but
I could not live without a cat.

Lesley Anne Ivory:
Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated..
Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.

David James:
After extensive research, I have determined that cats do have nine lives.
But this has made for some awkward moments on the autopsy table since you
can never really tell which life is nine.