Cats are a paradox.Form the time of the Pharaohs,their unique character has inspired both worship and awe.For while there is nothing so comforting as the purr of a contented cat,there always lingers the impression that it is you who is there for it.Cats always seem to have the upper hand.
Cats have inspired poets and painters,writers and thinkers.They have even given rise to musicals.Other pets may also win our love and devotion,but few animals have earned the respect we pay the cat.Perhaps it is because,unlike other pets,they don't seem to need us as much as we need them.
Cats are mysterious beings..You never know if they love you or if they condecend to occupy you house.This mystery is what makes them the most attractive beast.
If you want to know the charcter of a man,find out what his cat thinks of him
At whiles it seems as if one were somewhat as the cats,which ever have appeared to me to be animals of two parts,teh one of the house and the cushion and the prepeared food,the other that is free of the night and runs wild with the wind in its coat and the smell of earth in its nostrils.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
All animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others.
There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared with us--I mean their quiet,placid enjoyment of the present moment.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailmanmts,but I never heard of one who suffered from insommia.
Of all God's creatures,there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.That one is the cat.If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man,but it would deteriorate the cat.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Dogs come when they're called;cats take a message and get back to you.
Cats are smarter than dogs.You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
You now have learned to see that cats are much like you and me.And other people whom we find possessed of various types of mind.
I think that the reason that we admire cats,those of us who do,is their proficiency in one -upmanship.They always seem to come up on top,no matter what they are doing--or pretend to be doing..Maybe we secretly envy them.
I've met many thinkers and many cats,but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Animals are not brethren,they are not underlings,they are other nations,caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions,they pass no criticisms.
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful,ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with youre troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,through no fault of your own, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conguer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liguor,
If you can sleep wtihout the aid of drugs,
Then you are almost as good as your dog or cat.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
"It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being-closer than our own breathing- and our souls will suffer when they are gone."
for "The Souls of Animals" By Gary Kowalski
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men".
Leonardo Da Vinci
Today we remember youA few diehards will chant and shout for the animals,stoke the fires of change, but a slow wind feeds this fire and tomorrow the rest of the world will forget.
A dog, maybe a monkey only a rat-
someone unhuman, less than human, maybe, even the same cries in the dark and cannot bear another minute of pain He dreams of a place called home but waking remembers it is only a dream.
Yes,the rest of the world will remember you but thinks nothing of what you have given so they can have more.
Each day I remember you and cry to my God each night before I sleep when your face looks like mine and the thought is too hard to bear.What must I do? What, then, must we do?
"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; No disease that enough love will not heal; No door that enought love will not open; No gulf that enough love will not bridge; No wall that enough love will not throw down; No sin that enough love will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, How hopeless the outlook, How muddled the tangle, How great the mistake: A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world."
"The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it."
