A thing of Beauty is a joy forever. The cat looks and sounds ...
well lets see what these people have to say about the beauty of
cats in rest and motion.
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see
him.
- William Lyon Phelps
A meow massages the heart.
- Stuart McMillan
A thing of beauty, strength, and grace lies behind that whiskered face.
- Anonymous
Cats are like music. It's foolish to try to explain their worth to those
who don't appreciate them.
- Anonymous
Cats talk with their tails.
- Cleveland Amory
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat,
arrange yourself in slim poses.
- John Weitz
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without
a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and
let sleep.
- Saki (H. H. Munro)
Her function is to sit and be admired.
- Georgina Strickland Gates
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat
is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
- Doris Lessing
It was difficult to feel vexed by a creature that burst into a chorus
of purring as soon as I spoke to him.
- Philip Brown
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
- George F. Will
The eyes of a cat will wax and wane with the phases of the moon.
- W. B. Yeats
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
- Jules Reynard
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal. He is proud
of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie
the wrong way.
- Jules Champfleury
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
- Wesley Bates
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.
- Michael W. Fox
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the
cat.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
Which is the more beautiful, feline movement or feline stillness?
- Elizabeth Hamilton
Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least
pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.
- Roger Caras
Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable
of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind.
His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all
these, he has a sense of humor.
- Walter Chandoha
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
- Robert Graves
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