"A dog is a prose, a cat is a poem."
-- Jean Burden

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."
--Pam Brown

A cat can purr its way out of anything.
-- Donna McCrohan

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind."
--Cleveland Amory

This one is for Scott:

"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.
-- from "Miao" by Dilys Laing