And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly,… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. — John Weitz Copy Share Image
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society... — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image