- Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
- Oliver Herford on Pet
- Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
- James Herriot on Pet
- Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
- Mason Cooley on Pet
- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
- Garrison Keillor on Pet
- Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Pet
- Cats don't like change without their consent.
- Roger Caras on Pet
- Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
- Rod McKuen on Pet
- Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
- W. L. George on Pet
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Pet
- Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
- Frederick Pollock on Pet
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