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Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.
Sep 29, 2025
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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.'
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
One cat just leads to another.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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 kind.
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.
The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.