Philosophy, the gods, Heaven and Earth. What do cats have to do
with these subjects? Well, quite a lot as it happens.
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
- Ernest Menual
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
- Garrison Keilor
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
- Garrison Keillor
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were
created to serve man.
- Paul Gray
God has created the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
- Theophile Gautier
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant
and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso
God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing
the lion.
- Fernand Mery
How we behave towards cats here below determines out status in heaven.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk
on a cloud without coming through.
- Jules Verne
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat is not the better for
it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is
infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine
I myself think to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
- R. H. Blyth
I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into
her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I
would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read
it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she
purrs, I wrote it.
- Dilys Laing
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave
him the cat.
- Warren Eckstein
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes
it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
- Leonard Michaels
No Heaven will ever Heaven be
Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
- Anonymous
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of
the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it
would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
forgotten this.
- Anonymous
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
- Erasmus Darwin
Civilization is defined by the presence of cats.
- Anonymous
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image
did he create the nobler cat?
- Anonymous
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards
the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
- Andrew Lang
People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
- Faith Resnick
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