Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"The cat is utterly sincere." - Fernand Mery
[Not my little drama-kitty, Perrine, who feigns distress or fear-of-dog for sympathy ... or any cat insisting it has Never Been Fed Ever when asking for food.]

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..." -- Albert Schweitzer
[This one's a bit closer to the mark.]

"One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself." -- Bobbie Ann Mason
[Never done that, but I can easily imagine doing so.]

"A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate." -- Elizabeth Lemarchand

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk- there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets." -- Neil Gaiman
[Yup.]

"When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes." -- T. S. Eliot
[Well, you can be thankful for it and enjoy it ...]

"What greater gift than the love of a cat." -- Charles Dickens
[... like that.]

[Eleven years ago today, a tiny, starving tabby with a shorthair face and back and longhair tail and belly, appeared on my back porch in Baltimore. She's a lot less tiny now, and the shorter parts of her coat are more medium-hair now, and she still nags me to go to bed when she wants to curl up next to me for the night. (And despite what she loudly proclaims every evening sometime between 21:00 and 23:30, she's no longer starving.)]